ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,285, issued on March 31, was assigned to IMU EDUCATION SDN BHD (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
"Culture medium for bacteria" was invented by Kavitha Mohandas (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal-extract free, blood-free and blood-derivative free culture medium formulation is presented. It is developed for growth of fastidious, hemophilic, anaerobic and capnophilic bacteria as well as semi-fastidious and non-fastidious bacteria. The culture medium comprises (i) enriched basal media, (ii) at least one oxygen scavenging agent, (iii) toxic metabolite adsorbent, (iv) growth factor(s) and (v) an active ingredient. T...