US Patent Issued to Genentech on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for assaying large molecules with improved sensitivity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,900, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for assaying large molecules with improved sensitivity" was invented by Keyang Xu (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jintang He (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Surinder Kaur (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to systems and methods for assaying presence of large molecule analytes, such as proteins, e.g., antibodies, antigens, receptors, and the like, using a targeted two-dimensional liquid chromatography, tandem mass spectrometry (2D-LC-MS/MS) system, optionally combined wit...