US Patent Issued to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite Paris-Saclay on April 7 for "Methods for screening compounds for bactericidal activity and for determining the sensitivity of bacterial samples" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,504, issued on April 7, was assigned to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (Paris) and Universite Paris-Saclay (Gif sur Yvette, France).

"Methods for screening compounds for bactericidal activity and for determining the sensitivity of bacterial samples" was invented by Dominique Fourmy (Chevreuse, France), Satoko Yoshizawa (Chevreuse, France), Marie Ebeyer-Masotta (Franconville, France) and Jean-Luc Pernodet (Cachan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for screening compounds for bactericidal activity using thermostable luciferase and based on a real-time bioluminescence me...