ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,602, issued on March 17, was assigned to BioCatalyst LLC (Torrance, Calif.).
"Compositions and methods for peptide production" was invented by Jamshid Davoodi (Playa Del Rey, Calif.) and Mohammed M. Davoodi (Playa Del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure concerns production of product peptides with a target amino acid sequence by proteolysis of a recombinant polypeptide comprising specific protease recognition sites or chemical cleavage sequences. In some embodiments, the product peptide is released from repeating peptide units in the recombinant polypeptide by removal of intervening amino acid sequences by pro...