US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on May 13 for "Compositions and methods for transplantation of colon microbiota" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,974, issued on May 13, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Compositions and methods for transplantation of colon microbiota" was invented by Michael J. Sadowsky (Roseville, Minn.), Alexander Khoruts (Golden Valley, Minn.), Alexa R. Weingarden (St. Paul, Minn.) and Matthew J. Hamilton (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compositions that include an extract of human feces, and methods for using such compositions, including methods for replacing or supplementing or modifying a subject's colon microbiota, and methods for treating a disease, pathological condi...