US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on June 23 for "Mutations for improving activity and thermostability of PETASE enzymes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,662, issued on June 23, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Mutations for improving activity and thermostability of PETASE enzymes" was invented by Hongyuan Lu (Austin, Texas), Daniel Diaz (Austin, Texas), Hannah Cole (Austin, Texas), Raghav Shroff (Austin, Texas), Andrew Ellington (Austin, Texas) and Hal Alper (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to engineered plastic-degrading enzymes with improved functional features. In particular, modified PETases capable of hydrolysis of PET or polyethelene terephthalate plastic polymer are disclosed herein. These en...