US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Antibody specific to Staphylococcus aureus , therapeutic method and detection method using same" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,913, issued on March 24.

"Antibody specific to Staphylococcus aureus , therapeutic method and detection method using same" was invented by William R. Church (Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We provide new monoclonal antibody inhibitors of coagulases, staphylocoagulase ("SC") and von Willebrand factor-binding protein ("vWbp") for treatment of S. aureus. The monoclonal antibodies are useful in targeting the SC N-terminus of SC and vWbp (respectively) and inhibiting prothrombin activation. The monoclonal antibodies are able to bind to and interfere with, modulate, and/or inhibit the binding interactions between the coagu...