ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,221, issued on March 25, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).
"Leucine-enriched ketogenic formulations" was invented by Susan Gingrich (Ayer, Mass.), Robert Reed (Itasca, Ill.), Kenji Nagao (Tokyo) and Natsumi Nishikata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are nutritional compositions, such as ketogenic compositions, leucine-enriched amino acid mixtures, etc., useful, for example, for dietary management of intractable epilepsy. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of inhibiting epileptic seizures in a subject comprising administering to the subject a leucine-enriched amino acid mixture."
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