US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 18 for "Compositions and methods for treating biofilms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,386, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for treating biofilms" was invented by Clarissa J. Nobile (Merced, Calif.) and Megha Gulati (Merced, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides compositions comprising amino acids, individually and in combination, and methods of making the compositions and methods of using the compositions as pharmaceutically active agents to, inter alia, treat disease in animals, including humans."

The patent was filed on Dec. 3, 2019, under Application No. 17/295,656.

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