US Patent Issued to Khalifa University of Science and Technology on Oct. 20 for "Nucleation of large-scale protein crystals from nanoparticle seeds" (Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,435, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Khalifa University of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Nucleation of large-scale protein crystals from nanoparticle seeds" was invented by David Sheehan (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Syed Salma Sultana (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Praveen Managutti (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure describe an ultra-high condition prescreening protein crystallization kit, comprising: (a) gold nanoparticles coated with PEG (polyethylene glycol); (b) ultra-high conditions scaled up to screen; (c) a pluralit...