US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods to assess microbiomes and treatments thereof" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,734, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Systems and methods to assess microbiomes and treatments thereof" was invented by Robert A. Akins (Novi, Mich.) and Jack D. Sobel (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to assess the health of various microbiomes and to identity species therein are disclosed. Described assessments and identifications can inform treatment decisions if a microbiome is determined to have a less than optimal balance of bacterial species within it; the presence of one or more negative species; and/or the absence of one or more positive species."...