ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,211, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium).
"Dolosigranulum pigrum strains and uses thereof" was invented by Sarah Lebeer (Mortsel, Belgium), Jennifer Jorissen (Berchem, Belgium) and Ilke De Boeck (Buggenhout, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel isolated bacterial strains of the Dolosigranulum pigrum species and variants thereof having at least 99% sequence identity in its 16S rRNA gene to said novel strains. The present invention further relates to the use of these bacterial strains, and compositions comprising said strains for use as a probiotic, such ...