US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on Aug. 4 for "Stability and activity of enzymes by immobilization" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,497, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Stability and activity of enzymes by immobilization" was invented by James S. Weltz (Denver), Joel L. Kaar (Lafayette, Colo.), Daniel K. Schwartz (Boulder, Colo.) and Hector Sanchez-Moran (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer brush composed of statistical copolymers of hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers for enzyme immobilization. The heterogeneous polymer brushes stabilized four different lipases against high temperatures. Notably, the statistical copolymers stabilized the four lipases to a greater extent than a homopolymer...