US Patent Issued to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION on May 26 for "TARS derived from Akkermansia muciniphila or fragment thereof, and use thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,342, issued on May 26, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"TARS derived from Akkermansia muciniphila or fragment thereof, and use thereof" was invented by Myung Hee Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Won-Jae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Su-Man Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Shinhye Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung-Ah Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Eun-Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Byoung Chan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Chul-Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jungwon Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

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