US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on June 30 for "Bacterial microcompartment virus-like particles" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,614, issued on June 30, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Bacterial microcompartment virus-like particles" was invented by Yong Quan Tan (Singapore), Bo Xue (Singapore), Maybelle Darlene Kho Go (Singapore) and Wen Shan Yew (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing a bacterial microcompartment virus-like particle (VLP) carrying a cargo molecule, the method comprising introducing and expressing in a host cell or organism one or more polynucleotides comprising (a) a first sequence encoding bacterial microcompartment shell protomers and a second sequence...