ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,149, issued on July 28, was assigned to Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co. Ltd. (Hohhot City, China) and INNER MONGOLIA DAIRY TECH RES INSTITUTE CO LTD (Hohhot City, China).

"Use of Bifidobacterium lactis BL-99 in fighting aging and improving innate immunity" was invented by Wei-Hsien Liu (Hohhot City, China), Wen Zhao (Hohhot City, China), Wei-Lian Hung (Hohhot City, China), Gisela Adrienne Weiss (Hohhot City, China) and Carolien Annika Van Loo-Bouwman (Hohhot City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides novel uses of Bifidobacterium lactis BL-99 in anti-aging and improving innate immunity. The Bi...