ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,539, issued on May 20, was assigned to TCI Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Method of using lactobacillus fermentum TCI757 for gaining muscle, promoting secretion of irisin, and decreasing visceral fat" was invented by Yung-Hsiang Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Di Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lactobacillus fermentum is provided, where the Lactobacillus fermentum is Lactobacillus fermentum TCI757 and the Lactobacillus fermentum TCI757 was deposited at Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen under the accession number DSM 33914. A method of using Lactobacillus fermentum TCI757 of reducing fat and gaining mus...