US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on March 31 for "Bacteriophages for treatment of tuberculosis" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,127, issued on March 31, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Bacteriophages for treatment of tuberculosis" was invented by Graham F. Hatfull (Pittsburgh), Carlos Andres Guerrero (Pittsburgh) and Rebekah Marie Dedrick (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a combination of five or more phages and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods of treating, reducing, or preventing a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a mammal, methods of treating an antibiotic resistant infection in a mamma...