US Patent Issued to Universiteit Gent, Microbial Resource Management Health NV (MRM Health) on Nov. 4 for "Use of microbial communities for human and animal health" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,672, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium) and Microbial Resource Management Health NV (MRM Health) (Ghent, Belgium).

"Use of microbial communities for human and animal health" was invented by Sam Possemiers (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Massimo Marzorati (Brussels), Tom Van De Wiele (Merelbeke, Belgium), Ilse Scheirlinck (Gentbrugge, Belgium), Pieter Van Den Abeele (Lokeren, Belgium), Selin Bolca (Zwijnaarde, Belgium) and Davide Gottardi (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a mixture of bacteria belonging to at least six or seven different and specific bacterial species pref...