US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Sept. 29 for "Probiotics compositions and method of using the same to enhance growth and social function in children" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,262, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Probiotics compositions and method of using the same to enhance growth and social function in children" was invented by Xue-Jun Kong (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and compositions useful for the treatment of subjects suffering from Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS). The methods include administering compositions comprising probiotics, such as Lactobacillus reuteri (L. reuteri) and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis (B. lactis) to subjects in need thereof."

The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2021, under Applicat...