ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,974, issued on June 9, was assigned to GENMONT BIOTECH INCORPORATION (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Use of Lactobacillus paracasei GM-080 for modulating immune function" was invented by Wan-Hua Tsai (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Wen-Wei Chang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chia-Hsuan Chou (Tainan City, Taiwan), I-Jen Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Wen-Ling Yeh (Tainan City, Taiwan), Jhih-Hua Jhong (Gongguan Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Tzong-Yi Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an extracellular vesicle and a nucleotide fragment isolated from Lactobacillus paracasei GM-080 with the deposition numbe...