ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,650, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SYNBIO TECH INC. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis LDL557, and composition and use thereof" was invented by Jin-Seng Lin (Tainan, Taiwan), Chia-Chia Lee (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ting-Yu Lee (Tainan, Taiwan), Han-Yin Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Jiu-Yao Wang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an isolated strain of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis LDL557, which is deposited at Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH under an accession number DSM 33617. Also disclosed herein are a composition including the isolated s...