US Patent Issued to Duke University on March 18 for "Compositions and methods for measuring bacterial growth" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,750, issued on March 18, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for measuring bacterial growth" was invented by Lawrence David (Durham, N.C.) and Rachael Bloom (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention disclosed herein relates generally to the fields of microbiology, ecology and microfluidics. Particularly, the invention disclosed herein provides compositions and methods for isolating bacteria from complex microbial communities and measuring growth rates of the isolated bacteria in a given environmental condition."

The patent was filed on March 17, 2022, under Application No. 17/6...