US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS on Oct. 21 for "Swine origin probiotics that promote health and growth performance in pigs" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,182, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Swine origin probiotics that promote health and growth performance in pigs" was invented by Jiangchao Zhao (Fayetteville, Ark.), Xiaofan Wang (Fayetteville, Ark.), Tsungcheng Tsai (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Charles V. Maxwell (Springdale, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides probiotic compositions comprising isolated bacterial strains, referred to herein as LactX, StrepX1 and StrepX3. Methods of using the compositions to increase growth rate in pigs and enhance pig production are also provided....