US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 15 for "Platform and method for testing antibiotic sensitivity of a polymicrobial infection" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,156, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Platform and method for testing antibiotic sensitivity of a polymicrobial infection" was invented by David J. Beebe (Monona, Wis.), Layla J. Barkal (Madison, Wis.) and Jason Yu (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform and method for testing antibiotic sensitivity of a polymicrobial infection is provided. The platform includes a body defining a plurality of sets of chambers and a plurality of wells. Each set of chambers has a plurality of chambers adapted for culturing microbes of the polymicrobial infection therein. Each wel...