US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, ETH-Zurich, Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 5 for "Methods and compositions useful for inhibiting growth of certain bacteria" (American, Swiss, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,286, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.), ETH-Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland), Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions useful for inhibiting growth of certain bacteria" was invented by Asaf Levy (Concord, Calif.), Maximilian Mittelviefhaus (Zurich), Jiamin Miao (Lanzhou, China), Kunru Wang (Blacksburg, Va.), Bingyu Zhao (Blacksburg, Va.), Julia Vorholt-Zambelli (Zurich) and Jeffrey L. Dangl (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention...