ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,117, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).
"Antiviral agent" was invented by Haruki Kitazawa (Miyagi, Japan), Hisashi Aso (Miyagi, Japan) and Wakako Ohtsubo (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem of the invention is to provide an antiviral agent containing as an active ingredient a probiotic which effectively exhibits an antiviral effect also on combined infection with a virus and a pathogenic bacterium. An agent containing one, two or more Lactobacillus strains which have 16S rRNA gene having an identity of at least 90% with the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and which have the...