ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,990, issued on June 9, was assigned to Sichuan University (Chengdu, China).

"Bacterial membrane vesicles, and separation and preparation system and method therefor" was invented by Zhenling Wang (Chengdu, China) and Yuquan Wei (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention belongs to the field of microbiology, and particularly relates to membrane vesicles (MVs) isolated from bacteria, and an isolation and preparation system and method for the membrane vesicles, and applications of the membrane vesicles. The bacteria of the present invention comprise Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria. The invention...