US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on Feb. 10 for "Compositions and methods for protein detection" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,783, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods for protein detection" was invented by Scott Young (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates generally to peptide biomarkers with specific ionization characteristics to directly quantify one or more target HPPD proteins in biological samples, including crop plant samples, by liquid chromatography coupled tandem mass spectrometry multiple reaction monitoring (MRM). The peptide biomarkers in combination with MRM-based methods may be used to quantify a single target protein or multi...