US Patent Issued to The State of Israel Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Institute) on Feb. 24 for "Regulation of feed efficiency and methane production in ruminating animals" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,783, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The State of Israel Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Institute) (Rishon-LeZion, Israel).

"Regulation of feed efficiency and methane production in ruminating animals" was invented by Itzhak Mizrahi (LeHavim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the feed efficiency and methane production of a ruminating animal comprising analyzing the number and/or diversity of a bacterial taxon of a microbiome of the animal or of a gene content of said microbiome, wherein a number and/or diversity of said taxon below a predeter...