US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Oct. 6 for "Expression of electrically conductive protein nanowires in Escherichia coli" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,210, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Expression of electrically conductive protein nanowires in Escherichia coli" was invented by Derek R. Lovley (Amherst, Mass.), Toshiyuki Ueki (Amherst, Mass.), David Walker (Boston), Trevor Woodard (Shelburne, Mass.) and Kelly Nevin Lovley (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, in various embodiments, genetically modified aerobic bacteria, polynucleotides and methods for expressing and/or harvesting electrically conductive protein nanowires (e-PNs). The present invention also provides e-PNs produced using t...