US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Feb. 10 for "Administration of tailored feedstock to increase antibiotic susceptibility" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,444, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Administration of tailored feedstock to increase antibiotic susceptibility" was invented by Christian J. Sund (Bethesda, Md.) and Katherine L Germane (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing susceptibility of microorganisms to antibiotics includes providing a microorganism; administering a single type of an antibiotic including a nitroimidazole compound to the microorganism; and administering any of an uronic, aldonic, ulosonic, and aldaric feedstock to the microorganism. Th...