US Patent Issued to University of Washington on July 14 for "Red light-controlled protein dimerization systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,884, issued on July 14, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Red light-controlled protein dimerization systems" was invented by Liangcai Gu (Seattle), Zhimin Huang (Seattle) and Xiao Zhang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deinococcus radiodurans phytochrome (DrBphP) light form-binding antibodies are disclosed and their use in light-induced dimerization systems."

The patent was filed on June 17, 2021, under Application No. 17/997,582.

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