ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,825, issued on June 2, was assigned to GREEN CROSS WELLBEING Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition for treating respiratory diseases or inflammatory diseases caused by fine dust stimulation, containing lactic acid bacteria" was invented by Minjung Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Gyeongeun Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Gideok Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunsu Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongpil Hwang (Jinju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel strains of Lactobacillus plantarum GCWB1001 deposited as accession number KCCM12698P, Pediococcus acidilactici GCWB1085 deposited as accession numbe...