US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on July 21 for "Bacterial effector as anti-bacterial protein" (Virginia, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,705, issued on July 21, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Bacterial effector as anti-bacterial protein" was invented by Heather Baumann (Charlottesville, Va.), Rachael Hardison (Powell, Ohio) and Fadime Kara Murdoch (Upper Arlington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of using the Legionella pneumophilia effector protein, LegC4, either intracellularly generated or extracellularly delivered to cells, as an anti-microbial agent to treat or prevent intracellular microbial infections."

The patent was filed on June 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/331,686.

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