ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,224, issued on July 29, was assigned to MEIJI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Composition containing propionibacterium freudenreichii and uses thereof" was invented by Jun Wakabayashi (Tokyo) and Katsunori Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a composition that comprises a propionic acid bacterium or a composition that comprises an oligosaccharide. The composition that comprises a propionic acid bacterium or the composition that comprises an oligosaccharide can suppress an increase of body weight of a subject by having the subject ingest the composition."
The patent was filed on July 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/6...