ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,523, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Solarea Bio Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Immunomodulatory compositions comprising microbial entities" was invented by Eric Michael Schott (West Roxbury, Mass.), Gerardo V. Toledo (Hopkinton, Mass.), Maria Juliana Soto-Giron (Cambridge, Mass.), Alicia Eve Ballok (Natick, Mass.), Ryan Green (Somerville, Mass.) and Mark Charbonneau (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides for compositions (e.g., pharmaceutical compositions, dietary supplements, medical foods and food stuff), comprising combinations of live microbe populations for the treatment and/or prevention of immune ...