US Patent Issued to Josef Lazar on May 5 for "Probe and method for detecting membrane-associated molecules in living cells" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,828, issued on May 5, was assigned to Josef Lazar (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic).

"Probe and method for detecting membrane-associated molecules in living cells" was invented by Josef Lazar (Pribram, Czech Republic) and Alexey Bondar (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protein-based probe for detecting the presence of one of two distinct states of a target membrane-associated molecule by means of polarization microscopy is disclosed. The probe contains an anchoring moiety consisting of at least one lipidated peptide and/or at least one transmembrane Alpha-helical peptide, a peptide linker moiety having...