US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation, Nanovis on March 18 for "Inactivating bacteria with electric pulses and antibiotics" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,439, issued on March 18, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Nanovis LLC (Columbia City, Ind.).

"Inactivating bacteria with electric pulses and antibiotics" was invented by Allen Lawrence Garner (West Lafayette, Ind.), Ram Anand Vadlamani (West Lafayette, Ind.) and David Alan Detwiler (Columbia City, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of reducing a number of viable microbes, including contacting microbes with an antibiotic compound and applying pulses of electricity having a duration of between about 50 nanoseconds and about 900 nanoseconds. The pulses of electricity may have a...