US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on April 15 for "Polypeptide and its use in affinity purification" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,762, issued on April 15, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Polypeptide and its use in affinity purification" was invented by Mark Howarth (Oxford, Great Britain) and Irsyad Khairil Anuar (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an affinity purification system that utilises a polypeptide comprising: (i) an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein X at position 79 is selected from alanine, glycine, serine, asparagine, or threonine; (ii) a portion of (i) comprising an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein X at posi...