US Patent Issued to United Kingdom Research and Innovation on April 29 for "Methods and compositions" (British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,657, issued on April 29, was assigned to United Kingdom Research and Innovation (Swindon, Great Britain).

"Methods and compositions" was invented by Jason Chin (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Nicolas Huguenin-Dezot (Basel, Switzerland), Mohan Mahesh (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Shan Tang (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Duy P. Nguyen (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to genetic incorporation of 2,3-diamino propionic acid (DAP) into polypeptides, to unnatural amino acids comprising DAP, to a tRNA synthetase for charging tRNA with unnatural amino acids comprising DAP, and to meth...