US Patent Issued to Loam Bio on March 25 for "Methods for the reduction of methane production in ruminants" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,759, issued on March 25, was assigned to Loam Bio Pty Ltd (Orange, Australia).

"Methods for the reduction of methane production in ruminants" was invented by Abed Chaudhury (Orange, Australia), Karen Paco (St. Paul, Minn.), Michael Anthony Ayliffe (Canberra, Australia), Thomas David Loan (Canberra, Australia), Ming Luo (Canberra, Australia) and Tristan Yang (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for reducing methane emissions from a ruminant comprising administering to the ruminant a composition comprising a fungal strain, wherein the fungal strain comprises a vanadium-dependent halop...