ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,804, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for determining a personalized probiotic therapeutic regimen" was invented by Tungadri Bose (Pune, India), Anirban Dutta (Pune, India), Nishal Kumar Pinna (Pune, India), Sharmila Shekhar Mande (Pune, India) and Rohan Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing techniques fail to provide a method to cumulate effects of interactions between groups of gut-associated microbes to predict efficiency of a probiotic organism in an individual. The present disclosure collects a test biological sample from the subject requirin...