US Patent Issued to Asahi Biocycle on Oct. 7 for "Composition for prophylaxis of enteritis in avian comprising lactobacillus plantarum strain" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,922, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Asahi Biocycle Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Composition for prophylaxis of enteritis in avian comprising lactobacillus plantarum strain" was invented by Gentaro Yasuda (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Kotoyo Tanaka (Peachtree City, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an agent or a composition comprising viable cells or dead cells of the Lactobacillus plantarum strain (International Accession No. NITE BP-03418) as an active ingredient for preventing enteritis or necrotic enteritis, for suppressing inflammation due to enteritis or necrotic enteritis, for suppressing decreased feed conversio...