US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Feb. 17 for "Polylysine polymers with antimicrobial and/or anticancer activity" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,933, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Polylysine polymers with antimicrobial and/or anticancer activity" was invented by Nathaniel H. Park (San Jose, Calif.), James L. Hedrick (Pleasanton, Calif.), Victoria A. Piunova (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gavin Jones (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Yan Yang (Singapore), Pang Kern Jeremy Tan (Singapore), Chuan Yang (Hillington Green, Singapore) and Cherylette Anne Alexander (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques regarding guanidinium functionalized polylysine polymers that can have...