US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on May 20 for "Microbiomes and methods for producing medium-chain fatty acids from organic substrates" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,215, issued on May 20, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Microbiomes and methods for producing medium-chain fatty acids from organic substrates" was invented by Timothy James Donohue (Middleton, Wis.), Matthew Scarborough (Madison, Wis.) and Daniel Noguera (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microbiome compositions and uses thereof. The microbiome compositions include a set of microbes. The sets of microbes contain members of Lactobacillaceae, Eubacteriaceae, Lachnospiraceae, and Coriobacteriaceae. The number of individual physical microbes in the set constitutes a certain percentage of ...