US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE on Dec. 16 for "Compound for the determination of the protein FKBP12 and a sensor unit comprising it" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,364, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE (Florence, Italy).

"Compound for the determination of the protein FKBP12 and a sensor unit comprising it" was invented by Gabriella Caminati (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy), Piero Procacci (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy), Stefano Menichetti (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy), Maria Raffaella Martina (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy) and Laura Marsili (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel compounds useful as sensors for the rapid and specific determination of the FKBP12 protein, a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPlase), the leve...