ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,774, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KetoLipix Therapeutics GmbH (Germany).
"Polyol-based esters 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 polyol esters, especially polyglycerol esters, 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. 17/378,958.
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