ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,473, issued on June 3, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Composition for controlling indigenous bacterial flora in the skin" was invented by Shigeaki Shibamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuko Yoneda (Kyoto, Japan), Ryogo Takai (Kyoto, Japan) and Kohei Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention chiefly aims to provide a novel composition for controlling indigenous bacterial flora in the skin which can enhance or improve the diversity of bacterial species in the indigenous bacterial flora in the skin relative to the condition before treatment. The present invention can include, for example, a compos...