US Patent Issued to University of Delaware, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Feb. 10 for "Peptidic macromolecular assemblies" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,707, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Delaware (Newark, Del.) and Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Peptidic macromolecular assemblies" was invented by Darrin J. Pochan (Landenberg, Pa.), Christopher James Kloxin (Landenberg, Pa.), Jeffery G. Saven (Philadelphia), Dongdong Wu (Newark, Del.), Jose A. Villegas (Rehovot, Israel) and Huixi Violet Zhang (Eagleville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a non-natural macromolecular assembly that includes at least two peptide bundles and at least one linker moiety covalently linking the peptide bundles. The assembly may be used, for exampl...