ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,897, issued on March 24, was assigned to FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Synthetic foldable proteins generated from peptide segments of folding nuclei of reference proteins" was invented by Michael Blaber (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Liam M. Longo (Port St. Lucie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic foldable protein has a tertiary structure emulating the tertiary structure of a reference foldable protein. The reference foldable protein has a folding nucleus peptide sequence associated with folding the reference foldable protein. The synthetic foldable protein also has a peptide sequence...