ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,447, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Bifidobacterium breve JKL2022 strain and method for producing conjugated linoleic acid using thereof" was invented by Byong Hoon Lee (Toronto), Mun Yhung Jung (Samnye-eup, South Korea), Geun-Bae Kim (Anseong-si, South Korea) and Arxel G. Elnar (Anseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a Bifidobacterium breve JKL2022 strain capable of mass-producing natural conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), and a method for mass-producing conjugated linoleic acid using the same. The m...