US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on May 6 for "Recombinant Acinetobacter baumannii strain AB5075" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,441, issued on May 6, was assigned to The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Fort Detrick, Md.).

"Recombinant Acinetobacter baumannii strain AB5075" was invented by Daniel V Zurawski (New Market, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this application is described a mutant Acinobacter baumannii strain having a deletion or mutation in its genome. The deletion or mutation interrupts the proper translation of the Hcp protein."

The patent was filed on March 3, 2021, under Application No. 17/191,490.

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