US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Algenesis on Aug. 11 for "Degradable bio-based polymers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,768, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Algenesis Corp. (Cardiff, Calif.).

"Degradable bio-based polymers" was invented by Stephen Mayfield (La Jolla, Calif.), Robert Pomeroy (La Jolla, Calif.), Michael Burkart (La Jolla, Calif.), Natasha Gunawan (La Jolla, Calif.), Ariel Schreiman (La Jolla, Calif.), Marissa Tessman (Cardiff, Calif.), Nitin Neelakantan (Cardiff, Calif.) and Ryan Simkovsky (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are bio-based polymers, methods to prepare the same, bio-based polymer products, methods to degrade the same, and me...