US Patent Issued to DOW SILICONES, California Institute of Technology on Feb. 18 for "Method of preparing silanols with selective cytochrome P450 variants and related compounds and compositions" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,529, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Method of preparing silanols with selective cytochrome P450 variants and related compounds and compositions" was invented by John Roberts (Midland, Mich.), Dimitris Elias Katsoulis (Midland, Mich.), Susanne Baehr (Pasadena, Calif.), Sabine Brinkmann-Chen (Pasadena, Calif.), S. B. Jennifer Kan (Pasadena, Calif.) and Frances H. Arnold (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method of preparing a silanol-functional organosilicon compound with a cytochrome P450 varian...