ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,687, issued on Aug. 25.

"Formulations and methods for treating diarrhea" was invented by Sadasivan Vidyasagar (Gainesville, Fla.), Astrid Grosche (Gainesville, Fla.), Xiaodong Xu (Gainesville, Fla.), Shanshan Lin (Gainesville, Fla.), Stephen Gatto (Norwood, Mass.), Robert Kenefick (Norwood, Mass.) and Samuel Cheuvront (Norwood, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Amino acid formulations useful for treating diarrhea in a subject in need thereof are described herein. Such amino acid formulations and methods comprising administering same to a subject are useful for treating diarrhea, particularly diarrhea caused by or associated with b...