ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,722, issued on April 8, was assigned to AMICROBE INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Compositions and uses of locally-applied antimicrobial synthetic cationic polypeptide(s) with enhanced performance and safety" was invented by Michael P. Bevilacqua (Carlsbad, Calif.), Daniel J. Huang (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Doug Looker (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antimicrobial pharmaceutical compositions are formulated to allow local application in vivo of doses that provide antimicrobial effectiveness with low risk of local tissue toxicities and/or low risk of systemic/distant organ toxicities. In various embodiments the antimicrobial pha...