US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on Sept. 16 for "Human origin probiotic lactobacillus rhamnosus HL-200 to reduce leaky gut by metabolizing ethanolamine" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,972, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Human origin probiotic lactobacillus rhamnosus HL-200 to reduce leaky gut by metabolizing ethanolamine" was invented by Hariom Yadav (Tampa, Fla.), Shalini Jain (Tampa, Fla.) and Sidharth Mishra (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for a method of treating increased gut permeability, including administering a therapeutically effective amount of a human-derived probiotic to a patient in need thereof. Further provided herein is a method of increasing a patient's metabolism of ethanolamine, including administering...