ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,839, issued on March 4, was assigned to Promega Corp. (Madison, Wis.).
"Multipartite luciferase peptides and polypeptides" was invented by Virginia Kincaid (Madison, Wis.), Lance P. Encell (Madison, Wis.), Mary Hall (Madison, Wis.), Michael Killoran (Madison, Wis.), Keith Wood (Madison, Wis.), Melanie Dart (Madison, Wis.) and Trish Hoang (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are bioluminescent polypeptides and compositions and methods for the assembly of a tripartite or multipartite bioluminescent complex. In particular embodiments, a bioluminescent complex is formed upon the interaction of three or more pepti...