ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,447, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty Ltd (Victoria, Australia) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Act, Australia).

"LC-MS/MS-based methods for characterizing proteins" was invented by Susan MacIntosh (Saint Paul, Minn.), Michelle Colgrave (Brisbane, Australia), Keren Byrne (St. Lucia, Australia), Jo Caine (Parkville, Australia) and Xue-Rong Zhou (Canberra, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein provide methods to analyze the in vitro stability of recalcitrant or membrane-bound proteins in simulated gastric fluid (SGF) comprising the proteolytic ...