ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,829, issued on June 2, was assigned to SYNBIO TECH INC. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Method for alleviating osteoarthritis" was invented by Jin-Seng Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chia-Chia Lee (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Ting-Yu Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan), Han-Yin Hsu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Jiu-Yao Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for alleviating osteoarthritis using a composition containing an isolated strain of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis LDL557 which is deposited at Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH under an accession number DSM 33617."

The pa...