Patents by Inventor Bernard Berger

Bernard Berger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230320400
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods to personalise dietary fiber for an individual based on their CAZyme profile and recommendations for dietary fiber products and compositions as well as systems to facilitate quick and easy use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: BERNARD BERGER, NASHMIL EMAMI, LISA MARCELA LAMOTHE, CAROLINE LE ROY
  • Patent number: 11701397
    Abstract: The invention concerns Lactobacillus reuteri for use in the prevention or treatment of microbiota dysbiosis, in particular, decreased levels of Actinobacteria and increased levels of Proteobacteria, in young mammals and in the prevention or treatment of disorders associated therewith. The microbiota dysbiosis may have been cause by numerous factors including being born by caesarean section, exposure to antibiotics in utero or after birth, or, parenteral feeding, hospitalizing, psychological stress or by gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: BIOGAIA AB
    Inventors: Clara Lucia Garcia-Rodenas, Bernard Berger, Catherine Ngom-Bru, Melissa Lepage, Tara Neville
  • Publication number: 20220331380
    Abstract: The invention concerns Lactobacillus reuteri for use in the prevention or treatment of microbiota dysbiosis, in particular, decreased levels of Actinobacteria and increased levels of Proteobacteria, in young mammals and in the prevention or treatment of disorders associated therewith. The microbiota dysbiosis may have been cause by numerous factors including being born by caesarean section, exposure to antibiotics in utero or after birth, or, parenteral feeding, hospitalizing, psychological stress or by gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Clara Lucia Garcia-Rodenas, Bernard Berger, Catherine Ngom-Bru, Melissa Lepage, Tara Neville
  • Patent number: 11406650
    Abstract: The invention proposes a nutritional composition comprising selected oligosaccharides that reduces the abundance of Streptococcus bacteria in the gut of infants or young mammals. The infants are preferably infants in needs presenting a relatively high count of Streptococcus. Ultimately the reduction of streptococcus and the related microbiota balance affects and lowers the risk of adiposity or obesity later in life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Olga Sakwinska, Bernard Berger, Irma Silva Zolezzi, Joanna Holbrook
  • Patent number: 11369646
    Abstract: The invention concerns Lactobacillus reuteri for use in the prevention or treatment of microbiota dysbiosis, in particular, decreased levels of Actinobacteria and increased levels of Proteobacteria, in young mammals and in the prevention or treatment of disorders associated therewith. The microbiota dysbiosis may have been cause by numerous factors including being born by caesarean section, exposure to antibiotics in utero or after birth, or, parenteral feeding, hospitalizing, psychological stress or by gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BIOGAIA AB
    Inventors: Clara Lucia Garcia-Rodenas, Bernard Berger, Catherine Ngom-Bru, Melissa Lepage, Tara Neville
  • Patent number: 11179405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nutritional compositions for infants or young children and their health effects, that comprise at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide and at least one N-acetylated oligosaccharide. These nutritional compositions are for use to prevent and/or treat infection in an infant or young child, by promoting and/or reducing specific microbiota communities in an infant or young child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Norbert Sprenger, Dominik Grathwohl
  • Publication number: 20190209593
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nutritional compositions for infants or young children and their health effects, that comprise at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide and at least one N-acetylated oligosaccharide. These nutritional compositions are for use to prevent and/or treat infection in an infant or young child, by promoting and/or reducing specific microbiota communities in an infant or young child.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Norbert Sprenger, Dominik Grathwohl
  • Publication number: 20190166897
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising at least one N-acetylated oligosaccharide, and at least one galacto-oligosaccharide, and at least one sialylated oligosaccharide. The composition optionally comprises a Bifidobacterium animalis spp. lactis probiotic, preferably CNCM-I-3446 probiotic. The composition treat ro reduces the risk, the severity and/or the occurrence of non-rotavirus associated diarrhoea. The composition also promotes a healthy intestinal flora and has beneficial long and short terms effects. The composition is in particular intended for infants between 0 and 12 months of age fed predominantly with infant formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Harald Bruessow
  • Publication number: 20190160082
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide and at least one N-acetylated oligosaccharide for use in preventing and/or treating non-rotavirus diarrhea in infants or young children by acting on the dysbiosis of the microbiota preceding and/or following the non-rotavirus diarrhea. The composition can be an infant formula and is in particular intended for infants between 0 and 12 months of age fed predominantly with infant formula. It promotes a healthy intestinal flora and has beneficial short and long terms effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Norbert Sprenger, Harald Bruessow
  • Publication number: 20180368462
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nutrition composition with oligofructose and optionally high sn-2 palmitate triglycerides for inducing gut microbiota patterns in the guts of infants or young children that are similar in composition and diversity to the microbiota of breast fed infants. The infants can be 0-12 months or 0 to 36 months of age and the composition can be an infant formula. The composition promotes a healthy intestinal microbiota and can have long term effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, David Frantz, Susan Wernimont, Manjiang Yao
  • Publication number: 20180280454
    Abstract: The invention concerns Lactobacillus reuteri for use in the prevention or treatment of microbiota dysbiosis, in particular, decreased levels of Actinobacteria and increased levels of Proteobacteria, in young mammals and in the prevention or treatment of disorders associated therewith. The microbiota dysbiosis may have been cause by numerous factors including being born by caesarean section, exposure to antibiotics in utero or after birth, or, parenteral feeding, hospitalizing, psychological stress or by gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Clara Lucia GARCIA-RODENAS, Bernard BERGER, Catherine NGOM-BRU, Melissa LEPAGE, Tara NEVILLE
  • Publication number: 20180220691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nutrition composition with promoting or inducing a gut microbiota that is closer to infants fed exclusively with human breast milk, in comparison to infant fed with conventional nutritional composition. The composition is in particular intended for infants between 0 and 12 months of age fed predominantly with infant formula. The infants can be fed during 2, 4, or 6 months and the composition can be an infant formula. The composition promotes a healthy intestinal flora and has beneficial long and short terms effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Clara Lucia Garcia-Rodenas, Bernard Berger, Enea Rezzonico
  • Publication number: 20180220690
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide and at least one N-acetylated oligosaccharide for promoting or inducing a global gut microbiota that is closer to the one of infants fed exclusively with human breast milk, in comparison to infants fed with a conventional nutritional composition. The composition can be an infant formula and is in particular intended for infants between 0 and 12 months of age fed predominantly with infant formula. It promotes a healthy intestinal flora and has beneficial short and long terms effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Norbert Sprenger
  • Patent number: 9962415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to means and methods for modulating the gut microbiota composition of a subject, preferably a human. In particular, the present invention provides an agent capable of reducing the proportion of Lachnospiraceae in the gut microbiota composition of a subject which agent is useful for promoting weight loss or preventing weight gain in a subject, preferably an obese or overweight subject. Lactobacillus rhamnosus CGMCC 1.3724 is particularly preferred as the agent provided by and used in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Christian Darimont-Nicolau, Bernard Berger, Enea Rezzonico, Catherine Ngom-Bru, Melissa LePage
  • Publication number: 20180085384
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nutrition composition with oligofructose and optionally high sn-2 palmitate for down regulating, decreasing or inhibiting the growth of pathogenic bacterial populations in the guts of infants or young children. The infants can be 0-12 months of age and the composition can be an infant formula. Higher dosage of oligofructose intensifies the effect. The composition promotes a healthy intestinal microbiota.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, David Frantz, Susan Wernimont, Manjiang Yao
  • Publication number: 20170273997
    Abstract: The invention proposes a nutritional composition comprising selected oligosaccharides that reduces the abundance of Streptococcus bacteria in the gut of infants or young mammals. The infants are preferably infants in needs presenting a relatively high count of Streptococcus. Ultimately the reduction of streptococcus and the related microbiota balance affects and lowers the risk of adiposity or obesity later in life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Olga Sakwinska, Bernard Berger, Irma Silva Zolezzi, Joanna Holbrook
  • Publication number: 20160089404
    Abstract: The present invention relates to means and methods for modulating the gut microbiota composition of a subject, preferably a human. In particular, the present invention provides an agent capable of reducing the proportion of Lachnospiraceae in the gut microbiota composition of a subject which agent is useful for promoting weight loss or preventing weight gain in a subject, preferably an obese or overweight subject. Lactobacillus rhamnosus CGMCC 1.3724 is particularly preferred as the agent provided by and used in the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Christian Darimont-Nicolau, Bernard Berger, Enea Rezzonico, Catherine Ngom-Bru, Melissa LePage
  • Publication number: 20140227789
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to the field of Bifidobacteria. In particular, the present invention relates to the field of Bifidobacteria with a modulated stress resistance. One embodiment of the present invention is a Bifidobacterium with a constitutively modulated DnaK, GrpE and/or CIpB expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Ernea Rezzonico, Fabrizio Arigoni
  • Patent number: 8741622
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to the field of Bifidobacteria. In particular, the present invention relates to the field of Bifidobacteria with a modulated stress resistance. One embodiment of the present invention is a Bifidobacterium with a constitutively modulated DnaK, GrpE and/or CIpB expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Enea Rezzonico, Fabrizio Arigoni
  • Publication number: 20130273660
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to the field of Bifidobacteria. In particular, the present invention relates to the field of Bifidobacteria with a modulated stress resistance. One embodiment of the present invention is a Bifidobacterium with a constitutively modulated DnaK, GrpE and/or CIpB expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Bernard Berger, Enea Rezzonico, Fabrizio Arigoni