ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,719, issued on July 22, was assigned to CHR. HANSEN A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Bacillus subtilis strains improving animal performance parameters" was invented by Dorthe Sandvang (Slangerup, Denmark) and Tina Styrishave (Ringsted, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a Bacillus subtilis strain selected from the group consisting of a) the strain deposited as DSM32324,b) the strain deposited as DSM32325, and c) a mutant strain of (a) or (b) which has sensitivity for ampicillin, vancomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin, streptomycin, erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, and chloramphenicol; and has inhibitor...