US Patent Issued to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Marine organism derived surfactant" (Kuwaiti Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,496, issued on March 17, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).

"Marine organism derived surfactant" was invented by Naser Alsayegh (Safat, Kuwait), Fatemah M. Safar (Safat, Kuwait) and Manal A. Alkandari (Safat, Kuwait).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing biosurfactants derived from marine organisms are provided. The methods include providing one or more nudibranchs of the species Dendrodoris fumata, stimulating production of mucus by the nudibranchs, collecting mucus from the nudibranchs, concentrating the bioactive components in the mucus, determining the pH of the mucus, categorizing the mucus as acidi...