US Patent Issued to Avails Medical on April 7 for "Devices, systems, and methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,089, issued on April 7, was assigned to Avails Medical Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing" was invented by Elizabeth Botbol Ponte (Menlo Park, Calif.), Creighton T. Buie (Austin, Texas), Nitin K. Rajan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew H. Theiss (Mountain View, Calif.), Suzanne Putney (San Francisco), Eszter Deak (San Jose, Calif.), Meike Herget (Woodside, Calif.) and Oren S. Knopfmacher (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various apparatus, systems, and methods for determining a susceptibility of an infectious agent to an anti-infective are disclosed. In one aspect,...