US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Oct. 21 for "Indwelling device for treating flora and method for treating flora" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,320, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Indwelling device for treating flora and method for treating flora" was invented by Yumiko Awau (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indwelling device for treating flora includes probiotics, a carrier carrying the probiotics and including a first region arranged in an appendico and a second region arranged in an intestinal cecum, in which the probiotics are carried in the first region and the second region contains an antibacterial agent."

The patent was filed on Aug. 17, 2021, under Application No. 17/404,266.

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