ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,737, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sartorius Lab Instruments GmbH & Co. KG (Gottingen, Germany).

"Recombinant proteins based on fibrinogen" was invented by Thomas Scheper (Hannover, Germany), Iliyana Pepelanova (Hannover, Germany), Pia Gellermann (Hannover, Germany) and Sabrina Grunert (Marklohe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to isolated, recombinant polypeptides comprising the gamma chain of fibrinogen and a His-Tag. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding said polypeptides, vectors comprising said nucleic acids, host cells, preferably bacterial host cells, comprisi...