MUMBAI, India, Dec. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511101981 A) filed by Graphic Era, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on Oct. 23, for 'a process for engineering bacteriophages as antimicrobial therapeutics.'

Inventor(s) include Deependra Pratap Singh.

The application for the patent was published on Dec. 12, under issue no. 50/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a process (100) for engineering bacteriophages as antimicrobial therapeutics through sequential steps of phage isolation (101), genetic modification (102), host adaptation (104), and formulation (107). The process utilizes CRISPR-mediated editing, synthetic gene integration ...