ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,199, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Modular polypeptide libraries and methods of making and using same" was invented by Wendell A. Lim (San Francisco), Scott M. Coyle (San Francisco), Russell M. Gordley (San Francisco) and Kole T. Roybal (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides synthetic modular polypeptide libraries and nucleic acids encoding such synthetic modular polypeptide libraries. Also provided are methods of making synthetic modular polypeptide libraries and nucleic acids encoding synthetic modular polypeptide libraries. Me...