US Patent Issued to DAICEL, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Composition for suppressing obesity" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,105, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan), NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY (Kobe, Japan) and TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Tokushima, Japan).

"Composition for suppressing obesity" was invented by Takanori Nakajima (Tokyo), Yoko Yamashita (Kobe, Japan), Hitoshi Ashida (Kobe, Japan) and Rie Mukai (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing at least a composition for suppressing obesity and the problem is solved by a composition for suppressing obesity comprising a prenylflavonoid represented by general formula (1), as an active ingredient, be...