ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,940, issued on May 27, was assigned to ABLIVA AB (Sweden).
"Cell-permeable succinate compounds" was invented by Eskil Elmer (Lund, Sweden), Magnus Joakim Hansson (Landskrona, Sweden), Karl Henrik Johannes Ehinger (Lund, Sweden) and Steven Moss (Balsham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel cell-permeable succinates and cell permeable precursors of succinate aimed at increasing ATP-production in mitochondria. The main part of ATP produced and utilized in the eukaryotic cell originates from mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, a process to which high-energy electrons are provided by the ...