US Patent Issued to Abbott Laboratories on July 1 for "Methods for decreasing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in infants, toddlers, or children using human milk oligosaccharides" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,355, issued on July 1, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Israel).

"Methods for decreasing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in infants, toddlers, or children using human milk oligosaccharides" was invented by JoMay Chow (Westerville, Ohio), Steven R. Davis (Galena, Ohio), Rachael Buck (Gahanna, Ohio), Geralyn O. Duska-McEwen (Columbus, Ohio) and Hawley K. Linke (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of reducing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in an infant, toddler, or child using nutritional compositions including human milk oligosaccharides. The nutritional composition...