US Patent Issued to Emory University on Dec. 30 for "Multiple heteroresistance to guide combination antibiotic regimens" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,714, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Emory University (Atlanta).

"Multiple heteroresistance to guide combination antibiotic regimens" was invented by David Weiss (Decatur, Ga.), Victor Band (Decatur, Ga.) and David Hufnagel (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure contemplates detecting antimicrobial heteroresistance to guide antibiotic or other antimicrobial therapy. In certain embodiments, this disclosure contemplates avoiding a monotherapy with antibiotics to which an individual bacterial pie isolate is heteroresistant, because this can lead to treatment failure. Thus, in certain embodiments, one uses a combinati...