US Patent Issued to DH Technologies Development on Sept. 8 for "Solid-phase affinity selection by mass spectrometry" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,112, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Solid-phase affinity selection by mass spectrometry" was invented by Thomas R. Covey (Concord, Canada) and Chang Liu (Concord, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system for affinity selection by mass spectrometry, wherein a plurality of drug candidates in solution are separated based on affinity, a method is provided comprising introducing a solid-phase device having binding affinity for a selected protein into the solution, binding at least one of the plurality of drug candidates to the solid-phase device as a selected drug candidate,...