US Patent Issued to YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM, OFEK-ESHKOLOT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT on Sept. 30 for "Edible plant parts enriched with probiotic bacteria" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,616, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD. (Jerusalem) and OFEK-ESHKOLOT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LTD. (Karmiel, Israel).

"Edible plant parts enriched with probiotic bacteria" was invented by Oded Shoseyov (Shoham, Israel), Sigal Baruch-Sharon (Ness-Ziona, Israel), Betty Schwartz (Rehovot, Israel), Lilach Iasur Kruh (Kibbutz Afek, Israel), Roni Almon (Timrat, Israel) and Alaa Naama-Amar (Dier Al-Assad, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to edible plant parts or tissues comprising probiotic bacteria and use thereof for oral d...