ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,957, issued on May 27.
"Bowel cleansing composition" was invented by Yoon Sik Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Chung Yoon Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Suk Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Yee Kang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bowel cleansing composition includes as a first cleansing ingredient, a specific sugar alcohol such as xylitol, sorbitol, etc., as a second cleansing ingredient glycerol, erythritol, threitol, arabitol, ribitol, mannitol, galactitol, fucitol, iditol, inositol, volemitol, isomalt, maltitol, lactitol, maltotriitol, maltotetraitol, and polyglycitol, as a second cleansing ingredient ascorbic a...