US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Myers Squibb on Nov. 11 for "Supramolecular high affinity protein-binding system for purification of biomacromolecules" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,875, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Supramolecular high affinity protein-binding system for purification of biomacromolecules" was invented by Honggang Cui (Lutherville, Md.), Yi Li (Baltimore), Xuankuo Xu (Boxborough, Mass.), Lye Lin Lock (Maynard, Mass.) and Zhengjian Li (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, the present invention provides novel antibody purification methods and systems using a potentially simple and cost-efficient means. In some embodiments, customized Z-33 derived from Staphylococcus aureu...