US Patent Issued to Avails Medical on April 15 for "Devices, systems and methods to detect viable infectious agents in a fluid sample and susceptibility of infectious agents to anti-infectives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,982, issued on April 15, was assigned to Avails Medical Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Devices, systems and methods to detect viable infectious agents in a fluid sample and susceptibility of infectious agents to anti-infectives" was invented by Oren S. Knopfmacher (San Francisco), Meike Herget (Woodside, Calif.), Michael D. Laufer (Menlo Park, Calif.) and August Estabrook (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various devices, systems and methods for detecting infectious agents or determining a susceptibility of an infectious agent to an anti-infective are described herein. One example method comprises introducing a ...