ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,773, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IP Ventures GmbH (Schattdorf, Switzerland).
"Hollow fibres" was invented by Risto John Martin (Isle of Wight, Great Britain) and Haydn Rhys Ingram (Swanley Kent, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides extruded or spun, semi-permeable, porous hollow fibres, comprising covalent ester, thioester and/or amide crosslinked polypeptides as well as processes for their production. The hollow fibres may be produced from protein, protein extracts, and/or protein isolates derived from plants, animals, bacteria, algae, archaea, and/or fungi, and in certain embodiments a...