ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,832, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Navigo Proteins GmbH (Halle/Saale, Germany).
"Immunoglobulin binding polypeptides" was invented by Hanna Bobolowski (Halle/Saale, Germany), Erik Fiedler (Halle/Saale, Germany) and Ulrich Haupts (Halle/Saale, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel engineered artificial immunoglobulin (Ig) binding polypeptides comprising three domains and two linkers. The invention further relates to affinity matrices comprising these artificial Ig binding molecules of the invention. The novel Ig binding proteins are particularly useful for the affinity purification of prote...