ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,922, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China).

"Strain of lactobacillus fermentum capable of preventing and/or treating periodontitis and application" was invented by Wei Chen (Wuxi, China), Qiuxiang Zhang (Wuxi, China), Wanqing Xu (Wuxi, China), Wenwei Lu (Wuxi, China), Hao Zhang (Wuxi, China) and Jianxin Zhao (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a strain of Lactobacillus fermentum capable of preventing and/or treating periodontitis and an application thereof, belonging to the field of microbiology technology. The present disclosure has screened to obtain a strain...