US Patent Issued to VIB VZW, Universiteit Gent on Sept. 23 for "Means and methods for single molecule peptide sequencing" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,438, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VIB VZW (Ghent, Belgium) and Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Means and methods for single molecule peptide sequencing" was invented by Nico Callewaert (Nevele, Belgium), Sven Eyckerman (Nazareth, Belgium) and Simon Devos (Sint-Michiels, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of biochemistry, more particularly to proteomics, more particularly to protein sequencing, even more particularly to single molecule peptide sequencing. The invention discloses methods for single molecule protein sequencing and/or amino acid identification using cleavage ind...