US Patent Issued to Visby Medical on March 4 for "Devices and methods for antibiotic susceptibility testing" (California, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,993, issued on March 4, was assigned to Visby Medical Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for antibiotic susceptibility testing" was invented by David Swenson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Phoebe Cao (Sunol, Calif.), Gary Schoolnik (Washington), Bryan D. Knysh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Teresa M. Abraham (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates generally to molecular diagnostic devices configured to amplifying a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) locus and discriminate between two or more allelic variants of the SNP, indicating presence or absence of a target allele. In some embodiments, the molecul...