US Patent Issued to Universiteit Gent on Nov. 25 for "Bioconjugation reagent and methods" (Belgian, Greek, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,799, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Bioconjugation reagent and methods" was invented by Annemieke Madder (Massemen, Belgium), Ewout De Geyter (Laarne, Belgium), Eirini Antonatou (Ghent, Belgium), Sabina Smolen (Pawonkow, Poland), Dimitris Kalaitzakis (Iraklion, Greece) and Georgios Vassilikogiannakis (Iraklion, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention in general relates to the field of bioconjugation. More in particular, the invention relates to novel bioconjugation reactants based on an Alpha,Beta unsaturated Gamma-hydroxylactam structure, amongst others allowing a higher d...