US Patent Issued to University of Puerto Rico on June 9 for "Compositions including antimicrobial polymer-peptide conjugates and uses thereof" (Puerto Rico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,571, issued on June 9, was assigned to University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico).

"Compositions including antimicrobial polymer-peptide conjugates and uses thereof" was invented by Eduardo Nicolau (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Valerie Ortiz Gomez (San Juan, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are PEG-maximin H5 peptide conjugates and methods for using the same in the treatment or prevention of biofilms and biofouling."

The patent was filed on Jan. 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/795,129.

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