US Patent Issued to CRANE on July 21 for "Recombinant-structure protein multifilament and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,954, issued on July 21, was assigned to CRANE Inc. (Tsuruoka, Japan).

"Recombinant-structure protein multifilament and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Yunosuke Abe (Tsuruoka, Japan), Hideto Ishii (Tsuruoka, Japan), Ryoko Sato (Tsuruoka, Japan), Akito Sato (Tsuruoka, Japan), Hirotada Ando (Kariya, Japan), Hiroshi Kano (Tsuruoka, Japan), Koichi Kotaka (Tsuruoka, Japan) and Jun Kobayashi (Tsuruoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a modified fibroin multifilament excellent in productivity and a multifilament produced by the same. The multifilament...