US Patent Issued to KetoLipx Therapeutics on Oct. 21 for "Process for preparing carboxylic acid ester-cross-linked polyglycerol esters of 3-hydroxybutyric acid" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,483, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KetoLipx Therapeutics GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Process for preparing carboxylic acid ester-cross-linked polyglycerol esters of 3-hydroxybutyric acid" 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 polyglycerol esters of 3-hydroxybutyric acid crosslinked with polycarboxylic acids (i.e. polycarboxylic acid crosslinked 3-hydroxybutyric acid polyglycerol esters), as well as the products thus obtained and their use."

The patent was filed on Sept. 7, ...