ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,719, issued on April 15, was assigned to SYNBIO TECH INC. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Method for improving walking capacity of elderly subjects" was invented by Chia-Chia Lee (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Han-Yin Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chi-Chang Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-Ju Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Mon-Chien Lee (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a composition including Lactobacillus plantarum TWK10 deposited at the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) under accession number CGMCC 13008 for use in improving walking capacity of an elderly subject."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 202...