US Patent Issued to Navigo Proteins on Nov. 11 for "Triple-helical polypeptides lacking binding affinity for the Fc domain of immunoglobulin and uses thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,857, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Navigo Proteins GmbH (Halle/Saale, Germany).

"Triple-helical polypeptides lacking binding affinity for the Fc domain of immunoglobulin and uses thereof" was invented by Erik Fiedler (Halle/Saale, Germany), Ulrich Haupts (Halle/Saale, Germany) and Madlen Zwarg (Halle/Saale, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of protein engineering and purification and relates in particular to novel polypeptides having a triple-helical structure and lacking binding affinity for the Fc domain of immunoglobulin. The invention further relates to uses of the novel non-Fc...