US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on April 22 for "Compositions and methods for stabilization of active agents" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,101, issued on April 22, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for stabilization of active agents" was invented by David L. Kaplan (Concord, Mass.) and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for stabilization of active agents. The active agents are distributed, mixed or embedded in a silk fibroin matrix, thereby retaining the bioactivity of the active agents upon storage and/or transportation. In some embodiments, the storage-stable vaccine-silk compositions are also provided herein."

The patent was filed on Dec...