US Patent Issued to BOLT THREADS on Jan. 28 for "Methods of generating highly-crystalline recombinant spider silk protein fibers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,331, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to BOLT THREADS INC. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Methods of generating highly-crystalline recombinant spider silk protein fibers" was invented by Amir Ahmad Bakhtiary Davijani (Oakland, Calif.), Steven Tom (Berkeley, Calif.), Maxime Boulet-Audet (El Cerrito, Calif.), Paul Andre Guerette (Oakland, Calif.), Lindsay Wray (Benicia, Calif.), Nicole Elizabeth Subler (Berkeley, Calif.), Zoya Nasir Zulfiqar (Oakland, Calif.), Hua Li (Davis, Calif.) and Jessica Wang (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are scalable methods of processing wet-spun fiber comprising recombinant spider sil...