US Patent Issued to Modern Meadow on April 14 for "Protein polyurethane alloys and layered materials including the same" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,862, issued on April 14, was assigned to Modern Meadow Inc. (Nutley, N.J.).

"Protein polyurethane alloys and layered materials including the same" was invented by Samuel Broadbent (Hazlet, N.J.), Dale L. Handlin Jr. (Clifton, N.J.), Shaobo Cai (Oradell, N.J.), Zhe Tan (Secaucus, N.J.), Casey Crownhart (Hoboken, N.J.), Nicholas Yaraghi (Hoboken, N.J.), David Williamson (Towaco, N.J.), Alexander Iain Norman (Somerville, N.J.) and Lixin Dai (Livingston, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protein polyurethane alloys including one or more proteins dissolved within one or more polyurethanes. The protein polyurethane alloy may have one or...