US Patent Issued to Taichung Veterans General Hospital on Feb. 10 for "Recombinant lactic acid bacterium and method thereof for simultaneous treatment and/or prevention of dust mite and cockroach allergies" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,434, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Taichung Veterans General Hospital (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Recombinant lactic acid bacterium and method thereof for simultaneous treatment and/or prevention of dust mite and cockroach allergies" was invented by Mey Fann Lee (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yi-Hsing Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recombinant lactic acid bacterium and a method thereof for simultaneous treatment and/or prevention of dust mite and cockroach allergies. The recombinant lactic acid bacterium has a gene fragment with nucleotide coded as SEQ ID No: 1 to be capable of expressing the D2P2 protein with amino ac...