US Patent Issued to Advanced Animal Diagnostics on Nov. 18 for "Methods and compositions for reducing antibiotic administration to farm animals" (Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,322, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Advanced Animal Diagnostics Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for reducing antibiotic administration to farm animals" was invented by Joy Parr Drach (Pontiac, Ill.), Mitchell Hockett (Raleigh, N.C.), Stefano Bresolin (Garner, N.C.), Erik J Jensen (Hillsborough, N.C.), Tobias M. Heineck (Durham, N.C.), Jasper N. Pollard (Durham, N.C.), Deborah Asion (Durham, N.C.), Rodolfo R. Rodriguez (Cary, N.C.), David A. Calderwood (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Norah Gerow Bate (Raleigh, N.C.), John Richard Sink (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jorge Carlos Correa (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Th...