US Patent Issued to DOCTOR TJ on June 10 for "Composition containing Enterococcus faecalis as active ingredient for preventing or treating obesity or metabolic syndromes induced thereby" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,819, issued on June 10, was assigned to DOCTOR TJ Co. LTD (Wonju-si, South Korea).

"Composition containing Enterococcus faecalis as active ingredient for preventing or treating obesity or metabolic syndromes induced thereby" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sun Hong Kim (Wonju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for prevention or treatment of obesity or obesity-induced metabolic syndrome containing Enterococcus faecalis as an active ingredient. Specifically, it has been confirmed that Enterococcus faecalis EF-2001 exhibits the effect of inhibiting adipogenes...