ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,408, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF RHEOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF FOOD Co. LTD. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Composition for enhancing immune function" was invented by Takehiko Fujino (Fukuoka, Japan), Shiro Mawatari (Fukuoka, Japan), Shamim Niwase (Fukuoka, Japan), Minoru Fujino (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hiromi Nyuzuki (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is a composition for enhancing immune function, or a composition for activating natural killer cells, comprising plasmalogen."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2021, under Application No. 17/921,501.

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