US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 28 for "Evolving random heteropolymers towards catalytically active materials" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,501, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Evolving random heteropolymers towards catalytically active materials" was invented by Alfredo Alexander-Katz (Cambridge, Mass.), Shayna Hilburg (Cambridge, Mass.), Ting Xu (Berkeley, Calif.), Hao Yu (Emeryville, Calif.), Stefan Marco Eres (Berkeley, Calif.) and Philjun Kang (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to using monomer-based heteropolymers to create random heteropolymers that act as biomimetic catalysts that can be evolved to mimic activities of different classes of natural enzymes. ...