US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA on Jan. 27 for "Rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance by microbial ribosome immunoprecipitation" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,766, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA (Bellaterra, Spain).

"Rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance by microbial ribosome immunoprecipitation" was invented by Albert Quintana Romero (Bellaterra, Spain) and Elisenda Sanz Iglesias (Bellaterra, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for determining the resistance of a microorganism to a drug by detecting at least a transcript of a drug resistance gene from a microorganism in a biological sample, the method comprising the steps of: (i) lysing the cells by means of a chemical or a mechanical method, thereby obta...