US Patent Issued to Curie on March 25 for "Preservative compositions and methods of use thereof" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,741, issued on March 25, was assigned to Curie Co. Inc. (New York).

"Preservative compositions and methods of use thereof" was invented by Erika Milczek (New York), Simone Costa (New York) and William Shindel (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antimicrobial preservative compositions that can be incorporated in products to be preserved are disclosed herein. The disclosed compositions include immobilized biocidal enzymes, such as cross-linking enzymes or active enzymes falling into the zymogen-class, for the purpose of modifying amino acid residues on a protein or binding a molecule of interest to a protein. The compositions inc...