US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on April 14 for "Methods of designing and predicting proteins" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,151, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Methods of designing and predicting proteins" was invented by Jinfeng Zhang (Tallahassee, Fla.), Yuan Zhang (Tallahassee, Fla.), Wei Wu (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Xiuwen Liu (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of predicting or designing a protein. The methods may include providing a protein that includes a target residue; centering a gridded box on a selected atom of the target residue; collecting local structural information adjacent the selected atom and the target residue; and determining the tar...