ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,280, issued on May 13, was assigned to PROTEINT (TIANJIN) BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (China).

"Method for increasing number of proteins identified by mass spectrometry" was invented by Congcong Ma (Tianjin, China), Jin Zhao (Tianjin, China), Xubo Yuan (Tianjin, China), Liangyu Chen (Tianjin, China), Lei Song (Tianjin, China), Li Ren (Tianjin, China) and Jie Li (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for increasing a number of proteins identified, including: S1. adding a binding buffer and an aluminosilicate zeolite to a sample to be tested to obtain a first suspension; S2. incubating the fir...