ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,830, issued on June 30, was assigned to EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Pharmaceutical compositions for prevention and/or treatment of infections and antibacterial-induced dysfunctions" was invented by Athanasios Typas (Heidelberg, Germany), Ana Rita Gontao Brochado (Eibelstadt, Germany) and Stephan Gottig (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of therapeutics and, more in particular, to pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention and/or treatment of bacterial infections and antibacterial-induced dysfunctions. The compositions of the present in...