ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,516, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Protein library display systems and methods thereof" was invented by Michael Tadross (Durham, N.C.) and Victoria Goldenshtein (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are protein-RNA display constructs that couple a protein of interest to its encoding mRNA. An example protein-RNA display construct includes a first nucleotide portion including an RNA that forms hairpin structures; a second nucleotide portion including an mRNA encoding a protein of interest; a first protein portion including a protein having RNA hairpin binding peptides that...