US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of Nevada State College on June 17 for "Use of lipophilic beta-lactam antibiotics and carboxylate esters for the treatment of bacterial infections within citrus and other plant species" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,747, issued on June 17, was assigned to Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of Nevada State College (Henderson, Nev.).

"Use of lipophilic beta-lactam antibiotics and carboxylate esters for the treatment of bacterial infections within citrus and other plant species" was invented by Zachary R. Woydziak (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is method for converting a beta-lactam antibiotic into a "masked" beta-lactam antibiotic to permit it to cross the waxy cuticle of a plant and then subsequently unmasking the beta-lactam and converting it into an active beta-lactam antibiotic in the...