US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on April 7 for "Automated lipid exchange-mass spectrometry systems and methods" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,108, issued on April 7, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Automated lipid exchange-mass spectrometry systems and methods" was invented by Michael Marty (Tucson, Ariz.), James Keener (Tucson, Ariz.) and Guozhi Zhang (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated system for lipid exchange-mass spectrometry, e.g., measuring affinity of a membrane protein for lipids. The automated systems herein can measure the specificity of membrane protein-lipid interactions, detect remodeling of the membrane environment, and determine optimal lipid composition for membrane pr...