ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,649, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DermBiont Inc. (Boston).

"Compositions and methods for improving skin health and for the treatment and prevention of diseases, disorders and conditions associated with fungi and other pathogenic microbes" was invented by Robert Brucker (Boston), Yanjun Huang (Boston), Nikola Jovanovic (Boston), Bhanu Prakash Chowdary Sakhamuri (Boston), Ida Lister (Boston), Xuecheng Zhang (Boston), Sanjay Jain (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Emma Jean Mildred Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, disclosed herein are compositions and methods for using human-isolated or synthetic Alcal...