US Patent Issued to ACADEMIA SINICA on Sept. 30 for "Bidens pilosa and its phytochemicals for use in prevention and treatment of diarrhea" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,612, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ACADEMIA SINICA (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Bidens pilosa and its phytochemicals for use in prevention and treatment of diarrhea" was invented by Wen-Chin Yang (Taichung County, Taiwan) and Yu-Chuan Liang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition comprising Bidens pilosa or an active compound isolated from the Bidens pilosa for use in treating, inhibiting and/or decreasing the presence of pathogenic gut microbiota in an animal in need thereof is disclosed. The pathogenic gut microbiota are at least one selected from the group consisting of Brachyspira, porcine epidemic diarrhea viru...