US Patent Issued to Trustees of Dartmouth College on Sept. 23 for "Cyclodextrin-based polyrotaxanes and protein hybrids as three-dimensional printing inks" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,326, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Cyclodextrin-based polyrotaxanes and protein hybrids as three-dimensional printing inks" was invented by Chenfeng Ke (Hanover, N.H.), Qianming Lin (Hanover, N.H.), Longyu Li (Hanover, N.H.) and Miao Tang (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to a composition that includes a rotaxane. The rotaxane includes a plurality of macrocyclic rings and a polymer with a molecular weight below 10,000 Da that is covalently appended to one or more sterically hindered molecules. The cavities of the macrocycl...