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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Canon Virginia, Inc., Newport News, VA (US);
Kenichiro Iuchi, Newport News, VA (US);
Thomas Wheeless, Newport News, VA (US);
Samuele Battah, Newport News, VA (US);
Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Lexington, MA (US);
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Canon Virginia, Inc., Newport News, VA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for automated extraction of silk fibroin from silk cocoons. The silk extraction system can include a boiling tank, a rinsing tank, and a rinse bowl attached to a robotic arm. The rinse bowl has a porous bottom surface adapted to retain an extracted silk fibroin. The robotic arm can move the rinse bowl between the boiling tank and the rinsing tank for separate stages of processing. A silk processing algorithm is executed by a processor to automate the process.