US Patent Issued to Leibniz-Institut fur Polymerforschung Dresden on Feb. 17 for "Polymer-based material having covalently bonded enzymatically degradable peptide sequences" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,025, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Leibniz-Institut fur Polymerforschung Dresden E.V. (Dresden, Germany).

"Polymer-based material having covalently bonded enzymatically degradable peptide sequences" was invented by Mikhail Tsurkan (Dresden, Germany), Juliane Teichmann (Dresden, Germany) and Carsten Werner (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer-based material having covalently bonded enzymatically degradable peptide sequences not degradable by the biological and metabolic activity of cells and tissues is disclosed, wherein the peptide sequences are incorporated into the polymer-based material or conjugated to ...