US Patent Issued to The Rockefeller University on March 11 for "Sequence specific antimicrobials" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,061, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Rockefeller University (New York).

"Sequence specific antimicrobials" was invented by David Bikard (Paris) and Luciano Marraffini (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions and methods for selectively reducing the amount of antibiotic resistant and/or virulent bacteria in a mixed bacteria population, or for reducing any other type of unwanted bacteria in a mixed bacteria population. The compositions and methods involve targeting bacteria that are differentiated from other members of the population by at least one unique clustered regularly interspaced short p...