US Patent Issued to SEKISUI CHEMICAL, TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Vinyl alcohol-amino acid ester copolymer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,165, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Tokushima, Japan).

"Vinyl alcohol-amino acid ester copolymer" was invented by Yohei Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Risa Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan), Koichi Ute (Tokushima, Japan), Miyuki Oshimura (Tokushima, Japan), Tomohiro Hirano (Tokushima, Japan) and Ryo Kagitani (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a vinyl alcohol-amino acid ester copolymer that is excellent in properties such as cell culture properties, biocompatibility, antibacterial properties, and solubility in organic solvents, and is ap...