US Patent Issued to Avails Medical on April 15 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for determining susceptibility of microorganisms to anti-infectives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,634, issued on April 15, was assigned to Avails Medical Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for determining susceptibility of microorganisms to anti-infectives" was invented by Oren S. Knopfmacher (San Francisco), Meike Herget (Woodside, Calif.), August Estabrook (South San Francisco, Calif.), Nitin K. Rajan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Michael D. Laufer (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various devices, systems and methods of detecting a susceptibility of one or more infectious agents to one or more anti-infectives are described herein. In one embodiment, a method of detecting the susceptibility of...