ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,992, issued on Nov. 3, 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).

"Composition containing Bifidobacterium lactis and human milk oligosaccharides and application thereof" was invented by Gisela Adrienne Weiss (Hohhot City, China), Carolien Annika Van Loo-Bouwman (Hohhot City, China), Gerrit Smit (Hohhot City, China), Wendan Wang (Hohhot City, China), Ignatius Man-Yau Szeto (Hohhot City, China), Fangjie Gu (Hohhot City, China) and Biao Liu (Hohhot City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a co...