US Patent Issued to Quantum-Si on March 25 for "Methods and compositions for protein sequencing" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,391, issued on March 25, was assigned to Quantum-Si Inc. (Branford, Conn.).

"Methods and compositions for protein sequencing" was invented by Brian Reed (Madison, Conn.), Jeremy Lackey (Foster City, Calif.) and Haidong Huang (Madison, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the application provide methods of identifying and sequencing proteins, polypeptides, and amino acids, and compositions useful for the same. In some aspects, the application provides methods of obtaining data during a degradation process of a polypeptide, and outputting a sequence representative of the polypeptide. In some aspects, the application provide...