ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,110, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to COMBIOXIN SA (Geneva).
"Liposomes for inhibiting biofilm formation" was invented by Samareh Azeredo Da Silveira Lajaunias (Geneva) and Frederic Lajaunias (Geneva).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition comprising, preferably consisting of, (i) a single empty liposome, wherein said single empty liposome is selected from (a) an empty liposome comprising cholesterol, wherein the amount of cholesterol is at least 30% (weight per weight), wherein preferably said empty liposome comprising, further preferably consisting of, cholesterol and sphingomyelin; or (b) ...