US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on May 19 for "Identification of host-targeting modulators of bacterial uptake and assay for quantifying intracellular bacteria" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,856, issued on May 19, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Identification of host-targeting modulators of bacterial uptake and assay for quantifying intracellular bacteria" was invented by Daniel Czyz (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "CFU-less assays of quantifying intracellular bacteria and methods of using the CFU-less assays to identify host-targeting modulators of pathogen uptake or killing by host cells are described. Also described are host-targeting modulators of pathogen uptake by host cells and methods of using the host-targeting modulators to treat infection" ...