US Patent Issued to Northeastern University, The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University on July 8 for "Method of making recombinant silk and silk-amyloid hybrid proteins using bacteria" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,805, issued on July 8, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston) and The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University (Montreal, Canada).

"Method of making recombinant silk and silk-amyloid hybrid proteins using bacteria" was invented by Neel Satish Joshi (Somerville, Mass.), Peter Quoc Nguyen (Garden Grove, Calif.), Noemie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne (Montreal) and Zahra Abdali (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of making recombinant secretion of silk and collagen proteins, and amyloid fusions thereof, using bacteria."

The patent was filed on May 14, 2021, under Application No...