ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,090, issued on April 22.
"Antimicrobial peptides" was invented by Inanc Birol (Vancouver, Canada), Caren C. Helbing (Victoria, Canada) and Stewart Austin Hammond (Saskatoon, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), small compounds that often exhibit broad spectrum antimicrobial activity, are garnering interest as potential therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. Development of new AMPs is arduous due to the practical limitations of classical protein-based discovery approaches. A high throughput bioinformatics approach is described which is able to confirm identification of known AMPs ...