ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,521, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Imperial College Innovations Ltd. (London).
"Method of selecting a polypeptide of interest" was invented by Lara Selles Vidal (London) and John Heap (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods for identifying polypeptides and polynucleotides of interest, be they novel or variant polypeptides and polynucleotides, by expressing a plurality of polypeptides in an obligate or facultative anaerobe that is incapable of, or displays a reduction in, the oxidation of NADH and/or NADPH under anaerobic fermentation conditions and selecting an obligate or facultative anaerobe that ...