US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on June 17 for "Protein-based adhesive and its modification" (Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,230, issued on June 17, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation.

"Protein-based adhesive and its modification" was invented by Julie C. Liu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Sydney E. Hollingshead (Cleveland), Charng-Yu Lin (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Jonathan J. Wilker (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to protein-based adhesives that are capable to adhere to a substrate in a dry, wet, moist, or an aqueous environment. Particularly, said adhesives comprise a crosslinking agent and an elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) that contain tyrosine, lysine, cysteine, dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) or trihydroxyphe...