US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 11 for "Mass spectrometry cleavable heterobifunctional photoactivated cross-linkers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,811, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Mass spectrometry cleavable heterobifunctional photoactivated cross-linkers" was invented by Lan Huang (Irvine, Calif.) and Scott D. Rychnovsky (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for mass spectrometry (MS)-cleavable heterobifunctional photoactivated cross-linkers. The MS-cleavable heterobifunctional photoactivated cross-linkers can be used in mass spectrometry to facilitate structural analysis of intra-protein interactions in proteins and inter-protein interactions in protein complexes."

The pat...