ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,159, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Institute of Science Tokyo (Tokyo).
"Production of protein solid material" was invented by Takafumi Ueno (Tokyo), Satoshi Abe (Tokyo) and Mariko Kojima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method for producing a protein crystal includes: a step (a) for adding, to a protein synthesis system, a nucleic acid that encodes crystalline protein; and a step (b) for incubating the protein synthesis system during the predetermined time until the crystalline protein encoded by the added nucleic acid is expressed and the expressed crystalline protein completes the formation of crystals, wherein the pro...