Patents by Inventor Ilaria Dal Pra

Ilaria Dal Pra has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for the preparation of a non-woven silk fibroin fabrics
    Patent number: 7285637
    Abstract: A process for producing non-woven silk fiber fabrics comprises the following steps: a) obtaining silk fibroin, for example either from silk cocoons, or silk textiles or waste silk; b) removing the sericin layer covering the silk fibroin fibers, when present; c) breaking the disulfide bonds between heavy (350 kDa) and light (27 kDa) chains of silk fibroin in order to obtain the production of chain fragments which serve as a specific cellular recognition sites promoting the attachment and growth of cells, d) homogenising of the material resulting from step c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Consorzio per GLI Studi Universitari
    Inventors: Ubaldo Armato, Ilaria Dal Pra, Claudio Migliaresi, Antonella Motta, Kemal Kesenci
  • Method for the preparation of a non-woven silk fibroin fabrics
    Publication number: 20040097709
    Abstract: A process for producing non-woven silk fiber fabrics comprises the following steps: a) obtaining silk fibroin, for example either from silk cocoons, or silk textiles or waste silk; b) removing the sercin layer covering the silk fibroin fibers, when present; c) breaking the disulfide bonds between heavy (350 kDa) and light (27 kDa) chains of silk fibroin in order to obtain the production of chain fragments which serve as a specific cellular recognition sites promoting the attachment and growth of cells, d) homogenising of the material resulting from step c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Ubaldo Armato, Ilaria Dal Pra, Claudio Migliaresi, Antonella Motta, Kemal Kesenci