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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,981, issued on April 15, was assigned to Avails Medical Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for determining the concentration of microorganisms and the susceptibility of microorganisms to anti-infectives based on redox reactions" was invented by Oren S. Knopfmacher (San Francisco), Meike Herget (Woodside, 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 methods, devices, and systems for determining the concentration of microorganisms in a sample and determining the susceptibility of such microorganisms to one or more antibiotics or othe...