US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Children's Medical Center on Sept. 16 for "Methods and compositions to treat and prevent infection" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,971, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.), PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.) and Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Methods and compositions to treat and prevent infection" was invented by Neeraj K. Surana (Durham, N.C.) and Dennis Kasper (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, described herein are methods, bacteria, and compositions for the treatment of bacterial infections. Specifically, bacteria that can upregulate antimicrobial peptides, e.g., Reg3, within a subject have been identified and methods of using such bacteria to treat infecti...