US Patent Issued to Taiwan Bio-Manufacturing on June 17 for "Chimeric signal peptides for protein production" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,091, issued on June 17, was assigned to Taiwan Bio-Manufacturing Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Chimeric signal peptides for protein production" was invented by Chao-Yi Teng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ying-Ju Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chimeric signal peptide for protein expression includes an N-region, a hydrophobic region, and a C-region, wherein the N-region and the C-region are from a same signal peptide of a first protein and the hydrophobic region is from a signal peptide of a second protein, wherein the first protein is different from the second protein. The first and second protein are independently selected fr...