US Patent Issued to Roche Diagnostics Operations on Feb. 3 for "Nucleic acids encoding chimeric polypeptides for library screening" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,318, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Nucleic acids encoding chimeric polypeptides for library screening" was invented by David Casagolda Vallribera (Penzberg, Germany), Frank Kroner (Munich) and Michael Schraeml (Penzberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a library of chimeric polypeptides comprising one or more fragments from the peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase or FKBP family displaying one or more polypeptides on one or more FKBP members and its use in methods for the screening and selection of constrained peptide surrogates exhibiti...