US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 15 for "Graphene oxide affinity sample grids for Cyro-EM" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,021, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Graphene oxide affinity sample grids for Cyro-EM" was invented by Feng Wang (Fremont, Calif.), David Agard (Burlingame, Calif.), Yifan Cheng (San Francisco) and Eugene Palovcak (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein are innovations that enable facile cryo-EM analysis of diverse samples. Methods of functionalizing sample grids for cryo-EM are described, including methods of creating high quality graphene oxide films on cryo-EM substrates. The cryo-EM sample substrates are functionalized with affinity molecules that eff...