US Patent Issued to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY on June 24 for "Fibronectin type III domain-based protein and application thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,276, issued on June 24, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Fibronectin type III domain-based protein and application thereof" was invented by Woei-Jer Chuang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a protein, and the protein includes a 10th human fibronectin type III domain and has a first mutation at an amino acid residue with a cysteine residue and a second mutation at another amino acid residue with another cysteine residue, wherein the first mutation and the second mutation take place at a region of the 10th human fibronectin type III domain other than a loop FG...