ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,609, issued on March 25, was assigned to KetoLipix Therapeutics GmbH (Germany).

"Method for producing glycerides of hydroxycarboxylic acids" was invented by Dirk Lochmann (Witten, Germany), Sebastian Reyer (Witten, Germany) and Michael Stehr (Witten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing glycerides of 3-hydroxybutyric acid as well as the products thus obtained and their use."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2019, under Application No. 17/379,083.

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