US Patent Issued to Modular Genetics on July 28 for "Generation of acyl amino acids" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,503, issued on July 28, was assigned to Modular Genetics Inc. (Lincoln, Mass.).

"Generation of acyl amino acids" was invented by Kevin A. Jarrell (Lincoln, Mass.), Prashanth Vishwanath (Arlington, Mass.) and Gabriel Oscar Reznik (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Engineered polypeptides useful in synthesizing acyl amino acids are provided. Also provided are methods of making acyl amino acids using engineered polypeptides. In certain embodiments, an acyl amino acid produced using compositions and/or methods at the present invention comprises cocoyl glutamate."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2022, under Application No. 18...