US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on May 27 for "Metabolic control over organometallic catalysts using electroactive bacteria" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,628, issued on May 27, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Metabolic control over organometallic catalysts using electroactive bacteria" was invented by Benjamin Keitz (Austin, Texas), Gang Fan (Austin, Texas), Chris Dundas (Austin, Texas), Austin Graham (Austin, Texas) and Nathaniel Lynd (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for effecting atom or group transfer polymerization comprising polymerizing one or more radically-polymerizable monomers in the presence of a system comprising an electrically active micro-organism, a transition metal catal...