US Patent Issued to AWKEONOMIC BIOTECHNOLOGY on Aug. 19 for "Colon-targeted active agent delivery carrier and uses thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,531, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AWKEONOMIC BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Colon-targeted active agent delivery carrier and uses thereof" was invented by Shih-Kuo Hou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A colon-targeted active agent delivery carrier includes a low methoxyl pectin derived from Jelly fig (Jelly fig LM pectin) and a divalent cation, wherein the Jelly fig LM pectin crosslinks with the divalent cation in an egg-box conformation, wherein the colon-targeted composition is degraded by at least one enzyme in the colon of the subject to release the active agent."

The patent was filed on Aug. 1, 20...