US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Method for stress management and overall health status improvement and compositions used therein" (New York, New Jersey, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. RE50,617, issued on Oct. 7.

"Method for stress management and overall health status improvement and compositions used therein" was invented by Jayant Deshpande (Congers, N.Y.), James M Stringham (Durham, N.C.) and Vijaya Juturu (Morristown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Carotenoid compositions are described for management, treatment, and/or prevention of stress by reducing cortisol levels and/or improving distribution and/or density of macular pigment and thus improving overall health status. More particularly, a subject in need thereof for the method has disturbed macular pigment optical density or increased levels of cortisol as mark...