ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,420, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NBE-Therapeutics AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Sortase F and its use in methods for conjugation" was invented by Ulf Grawunder (Hersberg, Switzerland), Roger Beerli (Adlikon bei Regensdorf, Switzerland), Remy Gebleux (Olten, Switzerland), Chasper Puorger (Basel, Switzerland), Salvatore Di Girolamo (Basel, Switzerland) and Georg Lipps (Riehen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing a conjugate of two substrates, the method comprising the steps of (a) providing two substrates, each substrate being independently selected from the one or more ...