US Patent Issued to Bioatlantis on Dec. 2 for "Composition to improve gut health and animal performance and methods of making the same" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,152, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Bioatlantis Ltd. (Ireland).

"Composition to improve gut health and animal performance and methods of making the same" was invented by John O'Doherty (Belfield, Ireland) and John T. O'Sullivan (Tralee, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least about 8% Beta-glucans and/or at least about 8% Alpha-fucans, which has a prebiotic effect and act as a replacement for in-feed antibiotics. The present invention also relates to extraction methods to obtain such extracts and various uses for the compositions comprising Beta-glucans and/or Alpha-f...