US Patent Issued to Azitra on Sept. 29 for "Expression of the human lekti gene from the chromosome of Staphylococcus epidermidis" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,281, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Azitra Inc (Branford, Conn.).

"Expression of the human lekti gene from the chromosome of Staphylococcus epidermidis" was invented by Trudy H. Grossman (Branford, Conn.) and Alexander Tikhonov (Branford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides, inter alia, engineered microbes expressing one or more therapeutic proteins from a nucleotide sequence chromosomally integrated, which is effective to treat or ameliorate a disease or disorder, e.g., a skin disease. In certain embodiments, composition, methods, and kits are provided comprising microbes expressing one or more...