ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,364, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IMAGINE GLOBAL CARE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing a polysaccharide" was invented by Kazuhisa Sekimizu (Tokyo) and Makoto Urai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a polysaccharide includes extracting from broccoli with hot water to obtain an extract, purifying the extract by a chromatography column, and hydrolyzing the purified extract with oxalic acid. The chromatography column can be a DEAE cellulose chromatography column. The polysaccharide produced can have innate immune stimulating activity."

The patent was filed on Dec. 3, 2021, under Application No. 17/457...