US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on July 14 for "Hydrophobicity shifted enzyme" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,019, issued on July 14, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Hydrophobicity shifted enzyme" was invented by Matthew Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.) and Wenjing Li (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for analyzing a sample, the method comprising: (a) incubating a sample comprising an analyte with at least one enzyme to produce a digestion mixture comprising fragments of the analyte; (b) loading the digestion mixture onto a reversed-phase chromatography column; and (c) performing reversed-phase chromatography on the digestion mixture, wherein the at least o...