US Patent Issued to TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL on June 24 for "Bacteriophage compositions" (Chinese, Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,020, issued on June 24, was assigned to TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Bacteriophage compositions" was invented by Markus Rast (Singen, Germany), Sergio Rodriguez-Morillas (Basel, China) and Tomomine Iida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a bacteriophage composition comprising at least one bacteriophage species, at least one Alpha-linked polymeric glucose and at least one polyol. In certain embodiments, the Alpha-linked polymeric glucose has a mean molecular weight of greater than 10 kDa."

The patent was filed on April 17, 2019, under Application No. 17/047,611.

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