US Patent Issued to Baylor College of Medicine on March 17 for "Systems and methods for generating bacteriophages adapted to infect a target bacterial strain" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,538, issued on March 17, was assigned to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston).

"Systems and methods for generating bacteriophages adapted to infect a target bacterial strain" was invented by Justin Clark (Houston), Sabrina Green (Houston), Keiko Salazar (Houston), Austen Terwilliger (Houston) and Anthony Maresso (Missouri City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the invention provides a method of generating bacteriophages adapted to infect a target bacterial strain. The method comprises: providing host bacteria that are susceptible to phage as input to a host chemostat containing phage; providing target bacteria that...