US Patent Issued to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY on June 3 for "Functional amyloid hydrogels and applications thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,503, issued on June 3, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY (Mumbai, India).

"Functional amyloid hydrogels and applications thereof" was invented by Samir K. Maji (Mumbai, India), Namrata Singh (Mumbai, India), Komal Patel (Mumbai, India) and Reeba Susan Jacob (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the formation of hydrogels from poly-amino acids designed from the Beta-aggregation-prone region of functional amyloidogenic proteins that self-assemble to form a three-dimensional nanofibril matrix. Further, these water entrapped meshwork can be modulated by various physico-chemical ...