US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITAET BERN on April 14 for "Tailored liposomes for the treatment of bacterial infections" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,558, issued on April 14, was assigned to UNIVERSITAET BERN (Bern, Switzerland).

"Tailored liposomes for the treatment of bacterial infections" was invented by Eduard Babiychuk (Bern, Switzerland) and Annette Draeger (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the use of empty liposomes of defined lipid composition or mixtures of empty liposomes of defined lipid composition and to the use of other lipid bilayers or monolayers of defined lipid composition for the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections. It has been found that such liposomes, in particular a two- and a four-component mixture of l...