US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Feb. 24 for "Methods and compositions to modulate antibiotic resistance and gastrointestinal microbiota" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,386, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Methods and compositions to modulate antibiotic resistance and gastrointestinal microbiota" was invented by Hua Wang (Columbus, Ohio), Lu Zhang (Columbus, Ohio), Yang Zhou (Columbus, Ohio) and Zihua Wang (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and compositions related to probiotic formulas. These formulas comprise the bacterial strain Lactobacillus crispatus WZ-12 or a derivative thereof. Other strains which can be included in the composition include, but are not limited to, Lactobacillus salivarius 1-14, or...