ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,788, issued on June 17, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).
"Synbiotic compositions" was invented by Ines Ochrombel (Essen, Germany), Bodo Speckmann (Kahl, Germany), Stefan Pelzer (Guetersloh, Germany), Michael Schwarm (Alzenau, Germany) and Walter Pfefferle (Langgoens, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synbiotic preparation may include at least one probiotic strain and at least one amino acid or derivative thereof selected from glutamine, glutamic acid or salts thereof, conjugated glutamine, or oligopeptides of 2-10 amino acid units in length, wherein the amino acid units may be natural amino acids, and a...