US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY, NAVIPHARM on Nov. 3 for "Method of treatment with lactic acid bacteria" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,991, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and NAVIPHARM Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method of treatment with lactic acid bacteria" was invented by Dong-Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Myung Joo Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particular Bifidobacterium spp. strain or particular Lactobacillus spp. strain according to the present invention is isolated from excrement of a human or cabbage kimchi, and thus is highly safe and has physiological activities such as an immunity regulatory effect and an inflammation reactio...