ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,615, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Iseo-myeon Wanju-gun Jeollabuk-do, South Korea).

"Composition for improving respiratory diseases using Lactobacillus plantarum strain" was invented by So Young Lee (Jeonju-si Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Seung Yong Kim (Jeonju-si Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Young Do Nam (Jeonju-si Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), So Lim Park (Jeonju-si Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Dong Uk Shin (Cheongju-si Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea), Hee Soon Shin (Jeonju-si Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Ji Eun Eom (Jeonju-si Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Sun Young Jung (Dosan-ro Seo-gu Daejeon, South Korea) and Dae Woon Choi (Taebaek-si Gangwon-do, So...