US Patent Issued to BIOMERIEUX on Nov. 4 for "Mass spectrometry determination of the sensitivity or resistance of bacteria to an antibiotic" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,243, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BIOMERIEUX (Marcy l'Etoile, France).

"Mass spectrometry determination of the sensitivity or resistance of bacteria to an antibiotic" was invented by Jean-Philippe Charrier (Tassin la demi Lune, France), Nadine Perrot (Montluel, France) and Gilles Zambardi (Tignieu Jameyzieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for determining the sensitivity or resistance of at least one identified bacterium to at least one antibiotic, wherein the process includes the following steps: a) bringing a sample including bacterium into contact with the at least one antibiotic, the antibiotic inducing the ru...