US Patent Issued to ETH Zurich on May 6 for "Composite materials comprising amyloid fibrils and nanoparticulate nutritional minerals" (Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,091, issued on May 6, was assigned to ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Composite materials comprising amyloid fibrils and nanoparticulate nutritional minerals" was invented by Sreenath Bolisetty (Zurich, Switzerland), Michael Zimmermann (Rapperswil, Switzerland), Yi Shen (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Raffaele Mezzenga (Volketswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The use of amyloid fibrils for providing nutritional minerals to the human body, particularly as a component in a food product, a dietary supplement or in a pharmaceutical product. Compositions including composite materials of amyloid fibrils and nutritional mi...