US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO on March 11 for "Membrane protein activity measurement method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,244, issued on March 11, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Membrane protein activity measurement method" was invented by Yuichi Ikeda (Tokyo) and Hidetoshi Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a comprehensive assay capable of comprehensively measuring interactive factors for a variety of different types of proteins. In the present invention, provided is a system for detecting activation of a protein by integrating, with mediation of a plurality of factors, changes in the transcriptional regulatory region of a gene whose expression is changed by activation of the protein. The st...