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Bioactive Protein-Polymer Compositions for Stain Removal

Patent assigned to University of Minnesota and Toyota Motor Corporation.

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By: Christine Esposito

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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 ...

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