ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,430, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SNIPR TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Peterborough, Great Britain).
"Altering microbial populations and modifying microbiota" was invented by Jasper Clube (London), Morten Sommer (London), Christian Grondahl (London), Eric Van Der Helm (London) and Ruben Vazquez-Uribe (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods, uses, systems, arrays, engineered nucleotide sequences and vectors for inhibiting bacterial population growth or for altering the relative ratio of sub-populations of first and second bacteria in a mixed population of bacteria. The invention is particularly useful, for ex...