ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,857, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GELITA AG (Eberbach, Germany).
"Nutritionally-optimized collagen peptide" was invented by Stephan Hausmanns (Heidelberg, Germany), Hans-Ulrich Frech (Weinheim, Germany), Steffen Oesser (Glucksburg, Germany), Martin Hahn (Gronau, Germany) and Suzane Leser (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a nutritionally optimized synthetic or recombinant collagen peptide comprising at least one amino acid sequence motif (glycine-X-Y)n, and the collagen peptide according to the invention for use in a method for therapeutic treatment of the human or animal b...