ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,705, issued on July 22, was assigned to NANOTAG BIOTECHNOLOGIES GmbH (Goettingen, Germany).
"Epitope tags recognized by specific binders" was invented by Steffen Frey (Gottingen, Germany), Hansjoerg Goetzke (Hannover, Germany), Davilla Luis Felipe Opazo (Goettingen, Germany), Paal Erik Gustav Stenmark (Jaerfaella, Sweden) and Carranza Markel Martinez (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides peptides useful as epitope tags, which may be fused to a polypeptide of interest, as well as antibodies that specifically bind to these peptides. The peptides and/or antibodies can be used for detecting, immobilizin...