ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,596, issued on June 30, was assigned to SYNBIO TECH INC. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Method for promoting bone healing" was invented by Yu-Tzu Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hsuan Chou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Jyun-Sian Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chia-Chia Lee (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Han-Yin Hsu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for promoting bone healing in a subject includes administering to the subject in need thereof a composition including Lactobacillus plantarum TWK10 deposited at China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center with an accession number CGMCC No. 13008. The composition can e...