US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Oct. 28 for "Compositions and methods for bioorthogonal surface coating" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,550, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Compositions and methods for bioorthogonal surface coating" was invented by Enver Cagri Izgu (Piscataway, N.J.), Kern Hast (Jersey City, N.J.), Zhaojun Jia (Piscataway, N.J.) and Melih Baci (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods useful for the functionalization of surfaces in the absence of a metal catalyst. The compositions include compounds of formula (I), which react with strained alkene-containing compounds, before or after molecular assembly catalyzed by ...