US Patent Issued to BASF, The Regents of the University of California on Dec. 30 for "Enzymes and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,581, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Enzymes and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)" was invented by Omar M. Yaghi (Oakland, Calif.), Sonja Kuebelbeck (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Grit Baier (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Joshua C. Speros (Oakland, Calif.), Zhe Ji (Berkeley, Calif.), Bing Zhang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Benjamin Breiten (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions that include a metal-organic framework (MOF) including a framework defining an internal volume, an enzyme disposed within the ...