US Patent Issued to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHOLOGY, THE BROAD INSTITUTE on Nov. 11 for "In silico discovery of effective antimicrobials" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,580, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHOLOGY (Cambridge, Mass.) and THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"In silico discovery of effective antimicrobials" was invented by James Collins (Cambridge, Mass.), Regina Barzilay (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Stokes (Cambridge, Mass.), Ian Andrews (Cambridge, Mass.) and Daniel Collins (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to antimicrobial compositions, particularly to antibiotic compositions; to methods for identification of antimicrobial compositions involving in silico prediction of antimicrobial activity; and ...