ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,397, issued on May 13, was assigned to Diet4life ApS (Hammel, Denmark).

"Dietary peptides" was invented by Jan Stagsted (Hammel, Denmark), Jiehui Zhou (Braband, Denmark), Randi Jessen (Trige, Denmark), Johan Palmfeldt (Hjortshoj, Denmark) and Erik Torngaard Hansen (Nivaa, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel peptides, composition comprising such peptides including nutritional supplements and methods for inducing satiation and satiety, for weight management and preventing or reducing the incidence of obesity, or for preventing or reducing cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, hypertension, ...