US Patent Issued to Duke University on May 19 for "Order and disorder as a design principle for stimuli-responsive biopolymer networks" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,590, issued on May 19, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Order and disorder as a design principle for stimuli-responsive biopolymer networks" was invented by Ashutosh Chilkoti (Durham, N.C.) and Stefan Roberts (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are partially ordered polypeptides, which include a plurality of disordered domains and a plurality of structured domains. The partially ordered polypeptides may have phase transition behavior and form aggregates at, above, or below certain temperatures. Further provided are cellular scaffolds comprised of the partially ordered polypeptides."

The pate...