ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,057, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (New Orleans) and Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State Univeristy and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, La.).

"Hydrophobically modified polypeptoids and uses thereof" was invented by Donghui Zhang (Baton Rouge, La.), Vijay T. John (Destrehan, La.), Yueheng Zhang (New Orleans) and Sunting Xuan (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of hydrophobically modified polypeptoids are provided. The hydrophobically modified polypeptoids can include a polyamide backbone having a random copolymer of two or more different ...