ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,237, issued on July 15, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Compound library and method for producing compound library" was invented by Hiroaki Suga (Tokyo), Yuki Goto (Tokyo), Hiroyasu Onaka (Tokyo) and Alexander Vinogradov (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for producing a compound library comprising two or more cyclic compounds represented by the formula (I), comprising a step of allowing a macrocyclase in vitro to act on two or more peptides represented by the formula (II): LP-X-(Xa)m-Y-Z (II) wherein X represents a group represented by the formula (1), Y is a peptide resid...