US Patent Issued to MUSC FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT on Sept. 8 for "Targeted sialic acid labeling compounds, methods, and uses thereof" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,109, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MUSC FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT (Charleston, S.C.).

"Targeted sialic acid labeling compounds, methods, and uses thereof" was invented by Richard R. Drake (Charleston, S.C.) and Xiaowei Lu (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compounds, compositions, and reagents capable of labeling a biomolecule. In some embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and reagents allow for labeling to occur using a bioorthagonal reaction outside of a living cell and without a glycosyltransferase enzyme. Also described herein are methods of using the compounds compositions an...