US Patent Issued to MICROBIAL DISCOVERY GROUP, UNITED ANIMAL HEALTH on Aug. 19 for "Microbial strains for virus inhibition" (Wisconsin, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,497, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MICROBIAL DISCOVERY GROUP LLC (Franklin, Wis.) and UNITED ANIMAL HEALTH INC. (Sheridan, Ind.).

"Microbial strains for virus inhibition" was invented by Michael R. King (Oak Creek, Wis.), Sona Son (Cudahy, Wis.), Nathan Robert Augspurger (Noblesville, Ind.), Joel Dean Spencer (Westfield, Ind.) and Kyle Leistikow (Franklin, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compositions comprising microbial strains for use in inhibiting viruses, and methods therefor. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions of isolated Bacillus strains selected from the group consisting ...