ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,356, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Flourescent protein composition for DNA sequence analysis and method for DNA sequence analysis using same" was invented by Kyubong Jo (Seoul, South Korea), Seonghyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jihyun Park (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) and Eunji Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for DNA sequence analysis and a method for DNA sequence analysis, the method comprising treating a sample with the composition. The composition of the present invention can attain efficient optical ...