ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,521, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels) and The Regens of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Binding domains directed against GPCR:G protein complexes and uses derived thereof" was invented by Jan Steyaert (Beersel, Belgium), Els Pardon (Wezemaal, Belgium), Toon Laeremans (Dworp, Belgium), Brian Kobilka (Palo Alto, Calif.), Soren G. F. Rasmussen (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Sebastien Granier (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Roger K Sunahara (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosur...