US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 28 for "Application of norharmane in improving antibacterial activity of antibiotics" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,720, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Zhejiang, China).

"Application of norharmane in improving antibacterial activity of antibiotics" was invented by Hong Wang (Zhejiang, China), Jianwei Chen (Zhejiang, China), Yaojia Lu (Zhejiang, China), Huawei Zhang (Zhejiang, China) and Bin Wei (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an application of norharmane in improving activity of an antibiotic in resisting bacteria, when norharmane of the present invention is combined with polymyxin B, imipenem-cilastatin sodium or levofloxacin, it can enhance antibacterial activ...