US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on Nov. 3 for "Bio-based feather keratin decomposition method and system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,211, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Bio-based feather keratin decomposition method and system" was invented by Arwa Ali B. Al Mahasheer (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Amal Mahmoud (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Hesham El-Komy (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Amany Alqosaibi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Engineered, modified, or mutated Bacillus strains that produce keratinases or serine proteases (KerS) that biologically degrade keratin-containing materials, such as feathers; compositions containing these Bacillus strains or the keratinases they produce, and methods...