ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,683, issued on March 4, was assigned to FFF BIOWORKS LLP (Bangalore, India).

"Synergistic hepatoprotective composition" was invented by Avoorathu Thomas Jacob (Bangalore, India), Jayaraman Bharathi (Bangalore, India) and Thomas Avoorathu Jacob (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a synergistic hepatoprotective composition and in particular to a synergistic hepatoprotective composition having a novel combination of the phytochemicals namely curcuminoids and carotenoids such as lutein. The synergistic hepatoprotective composition is effective in promoting health more particularly in protecti...