US Patent Issued to The University of Chicago on July 15 for "Chemical platform assisted proximity capture (CAP-C)" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,242, issued on July 15, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Chemical platform assisted proximity capture (CAP-C)" was invented by Chuan He (Chicago) and Qiancheng You (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments are directed to compositions and methods for capture of elements in physical proximity. In certain aspects the methods comprise (a) contacting a target with a functionalized scaffold or capture agent that comprises activatable cross-linking moieties to form a target/scaffold mixture; (b) exposing the target/scaffold mixture to an activator to activate the cross-linking moieties of the dendrime...