US Patent Issued to Nyctea Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Generic high-capacity protein capture and tunable electrochemical release" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,490, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nyctea Technologies AB (Molndal, Sweden).

"Generic high-capacity protein capture and tunable electrochemical release" was invented by Gustav Ferrand-Drake del Castillo (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Andreas Dahlin (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical catch-release system (1) for repeated use comprising pH-responsive polymers (2) covalently linked to a structure (3) via a monolayer (4) of electrochemically insensitive aryl bonds, forming a polyelectrolyte arrangement (5), the polyelectrolyte arrangement (5) being arranged to, when the covalently bounded polymers (...