US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Dec. 16 for "Insoluble fibre fermentability and short chain fatty acid production by Bifidobacterium longum" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,324, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Insoluble fibre fermentability and short chain fatty acid production by Bifidobacterium longum" was invented by Lisa Marcela Lamothe (Lausanne, Switzerland), Stephane Duboux (St-Prex, Switzerland), Florence Rochat (Montreux, Switzerland) and Rosa Aragao Borner (Epalinges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a Bifidobacterium longum probiotic for use to improve fermentability of a plant fibre during gastro-intestinal tract passage in a subject, wherein said plant fibre has an insoluble fraction of bet...