ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,955, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Deglycosylation methods for electrophoresis of glycosylated proteins" was invented by Yiming Zhao (Great Neck, N.Y.), Hunter Chen (New York), Shao-Chun Wang (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Timothy Riehlman (East Greenbush, N.Y.), Gabriel Carreau (Delmar, N.Y.) and Ying Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods of analyzing a post-translationally modified protein of interest using electrophoresis, the methods comprising deglycosylating the protein of interest after labeling."

The patent was filed on Oc...