US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on July 15 for "G protein-coupled receptor screening systems" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,111, issued on July 15, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"G protein-coupled receptor screening systems" was invented by Ryan Strachan (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Reid Olsen (Oxford, Great Britain), Bryan Leo Roth (Durham, N.C.), Justin Gregory English (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Jeffrey Frederick Diberto (Carrboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) assay platform comprised of two complementary systems that equate dynamic intermolecular interactions between a receptor and transducer with more complex stimulus-response cascades in living ...