ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,759, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Fusion polypeptides" was invented by Jimmy Chan (Palo Alto, Calif.), David A. Estell (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amy Deming Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael C. Miller (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Igor Nikolaev (Leiden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, inter alia, are fusion DNA constructs comprising improved protease recognition sequences for expressing and purifying one or more polypeptides of interest as well as methods for producing one or more polypeptides of interest in a recombinant host cell."
The patent was filed on March 9, 2020, un...