US Patent Issued to Promega on June 16 for "Multipartite luciferase" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,398, issued on June 16, was assigned to Promega Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Multipartite luciferase" was invented by Mary Hall (Madison, Wis.), Lance P. Encell (Madison, Wis.), Michael Killoran (Madison, Wis.), Keith Wood (Madison, Wis.), Thomas Smith (Madison, Wis.), Virginia Kincaid (Madison, Wis.), Thomas Kirkland (Madison, Wis.) and Melanie Dart (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for the assembly of a tripartite or multipartite bioluminescent complex. In particular, a bioluminescent complex is formed upon the interaction of two or more peptide tags (e.g., separately or fused as ...