US Patent Issued to HOUSE WELLNESS FOODS on April 14 for "Feed and composition comprising lactic acid bacteria and fatty acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,638, issued on April 14, was assigned to HOUSE WELLNESS FOODS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Feed and composition comprising lactic acid bacteria and fatty acid" was invented by Rieko Yoshitake (Hyogo, Japan), Tsubasa Nakajima (Hyogo, Japan), Yoshitaka Hirose (Hyogo, Japan) and Mika Yamaguchi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide one or more selected from (1) a feed comprising Lactobacillus plantarum strain L-137 or a processed product thereof and a fatty acid or a salt thereof, (2) a composition for enhancing IL-12 production, comprising Lactobacillus plantarum strain L-1...