US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Nov. 18 for "Detection of microorganisms in the esophagus" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,590, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Detection of microorganisms in the esophagus" was invented by Ikenna Okereke (Galveston, Texas), Richard Pyles (Galveston, Texas), Aaron Miller (Galveston, Texas) and Catherine Hamilton (Galveston, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a method of detecting and treating a patient suspected of having Barrett's esophagus comprising: obtaining a biological sample from an esophagus of the patient; determining a microbiome in the biological sample by detecting the presence of bacteria by plasmid dilution...