ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,498, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Vedanta Biosciences Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Treatment of clostridium difficile infection" was invented by Jessica Schneider (Cambridge, Mass.), Yun-Gi Kim (Watertown, Mass.), Bernat Olle (Cambridge, Mass.), Shilpa Reddy (Watertown, Mass.), Jason Norman (North Weymouth, Mass.) and Juan Patarroyo (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for the treatment or prevention of pathogenic infections."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/326,511.

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