US Patent Issued to EGI-LENDERS on Sept. 16 for "Methods, compositions and systems for production of recombinant spider silk polypeptides" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,552, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to EGI-LENDERS LLC (Potomac, Md.).

"Methods, compositions and systems for production of recombinant spider silk polypeptides" was invented by David L. Brigham (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, compositions, and systems for transforming silkworms to produce spider silk and analogs of spider silk. In certain embodiments, the method may include inserting a DNA sequence coding for at least a portion of a spider silk fibroin polypeptide, or an analog of a spider silk fibroin polypeptide, positioned between at least a portion of the 5' and 3' ends of a silkworm fib...