US Patent Issued to BOLT THREADS on March 17 for "Methods and compositions for synthesizing improved silk fibers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,354, issued on March 17, was assigned to BOLT THREADS INC. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for synthesizing improved silk fibers" was invented by Daniel M. Widmaier (Emeryville, Calif.), David N. Breslauer (Emeryville, Calif.), Joshua Kittleson (Emeryville, Calif.), Brendan Turner (Emeryville, Calif.) and Lindsay Wray (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for directed to synthetic block copolymer proteins, expression constructs for their secretion, recombinant microorganisms for their production, and synthetic fibers (including advantageously, micr...