Patents

Bioactive Protein-Polymer Compositions for Stain Removal

Patent assigned to University of Minnesota and Toyota Motor Corporation.

US Patent 12,134,751 B2 (Andreas Buthe, Ping Wang, Songtao Wu, Hongfei Jia, Masahiko Ishii, Minjuan Zhang); Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan and the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, have been awarded a method of facilitating removal of an organic stain from a substrate or coating. It entails: providing a substrate or coating formed of an organic crosslinkable polymer resin; associating a lipase with the substrate or coating  capable of enzymatically degrading a component of an organic stain, wherein the lipase is uniformly dispersed in the substrate or coating in protein aggregates having an average diameter of 10 micrometers or less; and facilitating removal of an organic stain from said substrate or said coating by rinsing.

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