US Patent Issued to BEREUM on June 30 for "Composition for preventing, improving or treating benign prostatic hyperplasia or alopecia, comprising heat-killed probiotics as active ingredient" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,595, issued on June 30, was assigned to BEREUM Co. LTD (Wonju-si, South Korea).

"Composition for preventing, improving or treating benign prostatic hyperplasia or alopecia, comprising heat-killed probiotics as active ingredient" was invented by Eun Kyung Kim (Chungju-si, South Korea), Kwon Il Han (Wonju-si, South Korea), Masahiro Iwasa (Wonju-si, South Korea), Young Jin Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Meiqi Fan (Chungju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating benign prostatic hyperplasia or alopecia, comprising lactic acid bacteria of Enterococcus genus as...