ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,637, issued on April 14, was assigned to BiomEdit Inc. (Fishers, Ind.).

"Genetically modified Lactobacillus and uses thereof" was invented by Dharanesh Mahimapura Gangaiah (Fishers, Ind.), Arvind Kumar (Fishers, Ind.), Lin Liu (Greenfield, Ind.), Shrinivasrao Peerajirao Mane (Zionsville, Ind.) and Valerie Elyse Ryan (Greenfield, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to efficient delivery of anti-infective activity, immunomodulatory factors, or growth-promoting biomolecules directly to the digestive tract of an animal via a live delivery platform. The live delivery platform can be a genetically modified mi...