US Patent Issued to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE on July 14 for "Proteins containing multiple, different unnatural amino acids and methods of making and using such proteins" (Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,122, issued on July 14, was assigned to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE (Chestnut Hall, Mass.).

"Proteins containing multiple, different unnatural amino acids and methods of making and using such proteins" was invented by Yunan Zheng (Vernon Hills, Ill.), James Sebastian Italia (Charlestown, Mass.) and Abhishek Chatterjee (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates generally to methods of producing a protein comprising a first unnatural amino acid (UAA) and a second, different UAA, and proteins comprising a first UAA and a second, different UAA."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2020, under Application No. 17/76...