US Patent Issued to RIKEN, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Oct. 6 for "Polypeptide exhibiting fluorescent properties and use for same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,213, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to RIKEN (Saitama, Japan) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).

"Polypeptide exhibiting fluorescent properties and use for same" was invented by Atsushi Miyawaki (Saitama, Japan), Ryoko Ando (Saitama, Japan), Masahiko Hirano (Saitama, Japan) and Noriyo Takeda (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel fluorescent protein and uses thereof are provided. A polypeptide of the present invention has a fluorescence property, the polypeptide being indicated in any one of (1) to (3) below: (1) a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1; (2) a polypeptide having an amino...