US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 11 for "Antimicrobial therapy" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,686, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Antimicrobial therapy" was invented by Richard L. Gallo (San Diego), Teruaki Nakatsuji (San Diego), Kate Worthing (Tucson, Ariz.) and Alan O. O'Neill (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a synthesized version of S. felis C4 antimicrobial peptide as a topical antibiotic. S. felis C4 can be used as a probiotic strain of skin bacteria that can be transplanted onto the diseased skin of dogs, cats and dairy cows to outcompete and kill pathogenic bacteria that are causing infections such as bacterial pyoderm...