US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on Sept. 2 for "Hydrophobic silk fibroin compositions and methods of making the same" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,176, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Hydrophobic silk fibroin compositions and methods of making the same" was invented by David L. Kaplan (Concord, Mass.), Krishna Kumar (Cambridge, Mass.), Vittorio Montanari (Medford, Mass.), Morgan Hawker (Clovis, Calif.), Julia Fountain (Medford, Mass.) and Junqi Wu (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions, methods of making, and methods of using a modified silk-based composition having a selectively tunable hydrophobicity. The provided compositions include silk fibroin having a haloalkyl substitu...