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US 12,385,181 · App. 17/938,594 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Silk performance apparel and products and methods of preparing the same

Inventors: Gregory H. Altman (Providence, RI); Enrico Mortarino (Hickory, NC)
Assignee: EVOLVED BY NATURE, INC.
D06M15/15C08H1/00C08J7/0427C08L89/00C09D5/14C09D189/00C14C11/00D06B19/0011D06B19/0029D06M15/643B29C48/15B29C48/78C08J2489/00D06M2101/06D06M2101/14D06M2101/32D06M2200/10D06M2200/30D06M2200/35D10B2201/02D10B2211/06D10B2331/02D10B2331/04D10B2401/022D10B2401/13
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Patent No.
US 12,385,181
App. No.
17/938,594
Granted
Aug 12, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Silk infused performance apparel and methods of preparing the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, silk performance apparel includes textiles, fabrics, consumer products, leather, and other materials that are coated with aqueous solutions of pure silk fibroin based protein fragments. In some embodiments, coated apparel products, textiles, and upholstery, as well as other materials, exhibit surprisingly improved moisture management properties, resistance to microbial growth, increased abrasion resistance, and flame resistance.

Claims (19)

1. An article comprising leather having a coating, wherein the coating comprises silk fibroin fragments having an average weight average molecular weight selected from between about 5 kDa and about 144 kDa, between about 5 and about 10 kDa, between about 6 kDa and about 16 kDa, between about 17 kDa and about 38 kDa, between about 39 kDa and about 80 kDa, between about 60 and about 100 kDa, or between about 80 kDa and about 144 kDa,

wherein the silk fibroin fragments have a polydispersity of between 1 and about 5.0, and

wherein the silk fibroin fragments, prior to coating the leather, do not spontaneously or gradually gelate and do not visibly change in color or turbidity when in a solution for at least 10 days.

2. The article of claim 1 , wherein the silk fibroin fragments have an average weight average molecular weight selected from between about 5 kDa and about 10 kDa, between about 6 kDa and about 16 kDa, between about 17 kDa and about 38 kDa, between about 10 kDa and about 80 kDa, between about 39 kDa and about 80 kDa, between about 60 kDa and about 100 kDa, or between about 80 kDa and about 144 kDa.

3. The article of claim 1 , further comprising about 0.01% (w/w) to about 10% (w/w) sericin relative to the silk fibroin fragments.

4. The article of claim 1 , wherein the silk fibroin is selected from natural silk fibroin and recombinant silk fibroin.

5. The article of claim 1 , wherein the silk fibroin is selected from spider silk fibroin and silkworm silk fibroin.

6. The article of claim 5 , wherein the silkworm silk fibroin is Bombyx mori silk fibroin.

7. The article of claim 1 , wherein the coating comprises a copolymer.

8. The article of claim 1 , wherein the leather is natural leather.

9. The article of claim 8 , wherein the natural leather is selected from chrome-tanned leather, vegetable-tanned leather, aldehyde-tanned leather, brain-tanned leather, formaldehyde-tanned leather, Chamois leather, rose-tanned leather, synthetic-tanned leather, alum-tanned leather, patent leather, Vachetta leather, nubuck leather, rawhide leather, split leather, full-grain leather, top-grain leather, and corrected-grain leather.

10. The article of claim 1 , wherein the leather is synthetic leather.

11. The article of claim 10 , wherein the synthetic leather is selected from poromeric imitation leather, vinyl and polyamide felt fibers, polyurethane, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), polyamide, polyester, textile-polymer composite microfibers, corfan, koskin, leatherette, BIOTHANE®, BIRKIBUC®, BIRKO-FLOR®, CLARINOR, ECOLORICAR, KYDEX®, LORICAR, NAUGAHYDER, REXINER, VEGETAN®, FABRIKOID®, or combinations thereof.

12. The article of claim 1 , wherein the coating is applied to the leather prior to forming the article.

13. The article of claim 1 , wherein the coating is applied to at least one side of the leather using a method selected from a bath coating process, a spray coating process, a stencil process, a silk-foam based process, and a roller-based process.

14. The article of claim 1 , wherein the coating has a thickness selected from the group consisting of about 5 nm, about 10 nm, about 15 nm, about 20 nm, about 25 nm, about 50 nm, about 100 nm, about 200 nm, about 500 nm, about 1 m, about 5 μm, about 10 μm, and about 20 μm.

15. The article of claim 1 , wherein the coating is adsorbed on the leather.

16. The article of claim 1 , wherein the coating is attached to the leather through chemical cross-linking, enzymatic cross-linking, thermal cross-linking, or irradiative cross-linking.

17. The article of claim 1 , wherein the hand of the coated leather is improved relative to an uncoated leather.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 16, 2024
From: SILK, INC.
To: EVOLVED BY NATURE, INC.
Reel/Frame 069211/0935 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 16, 2024
From: ALTMAN, GREGORY H.; MORTARINO, ENRICO
To: SILK THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Reel/Frame 068919/0292 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 16, 2024
From: SILK THERAPEUTICS, INC.
To: SILK, INC.
Reel/Frame 069178/0509 →
Continuity (7)
Continuation 15744566
Continuation In Part PCTUS2015063545 · Dec 2, 2015
Provisional Application 62344273 · Jun 1, 2016
Provisional Application 62297929 · Feb 21, 2016
Provisional Application 62245221 · Oct 22, 2015
Provisional Application 62192477 · Jul 14, 2015
Related Publication 20230175199A1 · Jun 8, 2023
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