ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,118, issued on July 15, was assigned to KINOMICA Ltd. (Macclesfield, Great Britain).
"Method for protein kinase activity ranking" was invented by Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas (London), Edmund Wilkes (London) and Pedro Casado-Izquierdo (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of quantifying the activity of a protein modifying enzyme in a sample, comprising calculating the value K for said protein-modifying enzyme on the basis of the number of modified peptides in a sample that are substrates of said protein modifying enzyme, the intensity of the modified peptides, each modified peptide in the sample t...