US Patent Issued to University of Washington, University of Utah Research Foundation on Feb. 10 for "Polypeptide assemblies and methods for the production thereof" (Washington, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,903, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle) and University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Polypeptide assemblies and methods for the production thereof" was invented by Neil King (Seattle), Wesley Sundquist (Salt Lake City), Joerg Votteler (Salt Lake City), Yang Hsia (Seattle), David Baker (Seattle), Jacob Bale (Seattle), Marc Lajoie (Seattle), Gabriel Butterfield (Seattle), Elizabeth Gray (Seattle) and Daniel Stetson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application discloses multimeric assemblies including multiple oligomeric substructures, where each oligomeric substructure incl...