ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,397, issued on May 19, was assigned to Greenstore Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Weissella cibaria GSKM06 and use thereof" was invented by Young Chang Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dae Keun Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Su Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Na Yeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Chaeyoung Bang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a Weissella cibaria GSKM06 strain and the use thereof. The strain is safe because it has no toxicity to the human body and has excellent physiological activities such as suppression of inflammatory reactions as well as immunomodulatory effects, thus being useful as a s...