US Patent Issued to HAGIHARA FARM PRODUCTION INSTITUTE, MIE UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION on Dec. 16 for "Compound derived from watermelon, and composition using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,427, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HAGIHARA FARM PRODUCTION INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan), MIE UNIVERSITY (Mie, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION (Aichi, Japan).

"Compound derived from watermelon, and composition using same" was invented by Toshiharu Hashizume (Nara, Japan), Tomohiro Itoh (Mie, Japan), Mamoru Koketsu (Gifu, Japan) and Masayuki Ninomiya (Gifu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compound that is contained in a young watermelon fruit and is represented by the formula (1) or formula (2) has an antioxidative effect and further has a skin anti-aging effect. Since these...