US Patent Issued to Ministry of Health, State of Israel, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (R.A), Tel HaShomer Medical Research lnfrastructure and Services on March 18 for "Antimicrobial compounds from the genus Delftia" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,417, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ministry of Health, State of Israel (Jerusalem), Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (R.A) (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Tel HaShomer Medical Research lnfrastructure and Services Ltd. (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

"Antimicrobial compounds from the genus Delftia" was invented by Israel Nissan (Modiln, Israel), Noa Lea Tejman-Yarden (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Chaim Rubinovitz (Omer, Israel), Yakov Davidov (Jerusalem), Galia Rahav (Jerusalem), Ari Robinson (Bnei-Atarot, Israel) and Yoram Shotland (LeHavim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cultures of Delftia bacteria are disclosed. Antimicrobial agents derived ...