US Patent Issued to Universite Libre de Bruxelles, SUPERBIOTICS on Sept. 1 for "Probiotics for the prevention or treatment of viral respiratory infections" (Belgian, Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,871, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels) and SUPERBIOTICS SRL (Eghezee, Belgium).

"Probiotics for the prevention or treatment of viral respiratory infections" was invented by Veronique Lucie Andree Flamand (Brussels), Jehan Lienart (Pommerloch, Luxembourg) and France Fannes (Waterloo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to the field of probiotics. In particular, the invention relates to a composition comprising a probiotic for use in the prevention or treatment of a viral respiratory infection in a subject, wherein said composition is administered to the subject's preg...