US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 24 for "Biodegradable polymer-additive blends" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,604, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Biodegradable polymer-additive blends" was invented by Ting Xu (Berkeley, Calif.) and Christopher A. DelRe (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions comprise synergistic enzyme mixtures, and related methods, to realize near-complete depolymerization in biodegradable polymer/additive blends."

The patent was filed on Sept. 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/941,026.

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