US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on Feb. 17 for "Assays for antimicrobial activity and applications thereof" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,892, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Assays for antimicrobial activity and applications thereof" was invented by Mark J. Cartwright (West Newton, Mass.), Nazita Gamini (Somerville, Mass.), Donald E. Ingber (Boston), Martin M. Rottman (La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France), Michael Super (Lexington, Mass.), Julie A. Tomolonis (Houston) and Karen A. Sinclair (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods, compositions, and kits for enhanced detection of microbes in samples and monitoring of antimicrobial activity in a subject."

The patent was fi...