US Patent Issued to Yeda Research and Development on March 24 for "Albumin protein variants, production thereof and uses of same" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,908, issued on March 24, was assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Albumin protein variants, production thereof and uses of same" was invented by Sarel Fleishman (Rehovot, Israel) and Olga Khersonsky (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An albumin protein is provided. The albumin protein is soluble when expressed in bacteria and characterized by increased thermostability as compared to wild type human serum albumin (HSA). Also provided are nucleic acid molecules encoding the albumin protein, compositions comprising the albumin protein and uses thereof."

The patent was filed on Jan. 16, 20...