US Patent Issued to KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 5 for "Composition for discriminating Lactobacillus acidophilus strains and discrimination method using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,117, issued on May 5, was assigned to KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea).

"Composition for discriminating Lactobacillus acidophilus strains and discrimination method using same" was invented by Young-do Nam (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Won-Hyong Chung (Daejeon, South Korea), Mi Young Lim (Seoul, South Korea), So-Young Lee (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Yong-Soo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jisu Kang (Gwangju, South Korea), Yun-Tai Kim (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Hee Soon Shin (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Ji-hee Shin (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea) and Seungpyo Hong (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office...