US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION, THERMO FINNIGAN on July 1 for "Rapid identification and sequence analysis of intact proteins in complex mixtures" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,665, issued on July 1, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Va.) and THERMO FINNIGAN LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Rapid identification and sequence analysis of intact proteins in complex mixtures" was invented by Donald F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Va.), Ann M. English (Andover, Mass.), Scott A. Ugrin (Charlottesville, Va.), Dina L. Bai (Charlottesville, Va.), Jeffrey Shabanowitz (Charlottesville, Va.) and John Edward Philip Syka (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to novel and improved methods of analyzing proteins, peptides and polypeptides by mass spectr...