ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,158, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to University of Leicester (Leicester, Great Britain).
"Therapeutic bacteriophages" was invented by Martha Clokie (Leicester, Great Britain) and Anisha Thanki (Leicester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a bacteriophage of the Myoviridae family, comprising a genome of circularly permuted double-stranded DNA at a length of 200 kbp or more; characterised in that the phage has any one or more of the following features: a) does not have a holin gene; and/or b) binds to the Salmonella lipopolysaccharide; and/or c) has only one tail fibre protein; and d) has a sequence wi...