ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,034, issued on April 29, was assigned to HELIAE DEVELOPMENT LLC (Gilbert, Ariz.).

"Human and non-human animal use of microbial anaplerotic oil" was invented by Micheal LaMont (Gilbert, Ariz.), Magdalena Amezquita Ernult (Phoenix) and Eneko Ganuza Taberna (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques and systems for producing microbials having anaplerotic oils that are rich in odd-chain fatty acids, and other beneficial components, at higher concentrations than those present in other natural dietary sources of OCFA, at lower cost, and higher production yield. Further, disclosed are examples of incorporation of t...