US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 22 for "Bioactive plastics with programmable degradation and microplastic elimination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,208, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Bioactive plastics with programmable degradation and microplastic elimination" was invented by Ting Xu (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher DelRe (Berkeley, Calif.) and Junpyo Kwon (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nanoscopic dispersion of trace enzymes and random heteropolymers in plastics provides to fully functional plastics with eco-friendly microplastic elimination and programmable degradation."

The patent was filed on June 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/844,026.

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