US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 7 for "Compositions and methods for combinatorial drug discovery in nanoliter droplets" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,084, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for combinatorial drug discovery in nanoliter droplets" was invented by Paul Blainey (Cambridge, Mass.), Anthony Kulesa (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jared Kehe (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds and methods for combinatorial drug discovery in nanoliter droplets are described herein. More particularly, novel synergistic agents that increase efficacy of antibiotic agents to treat bacterial infections are described."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2...