US Patent Issued to Kewpie on June 3 for "MicroRNA expression promoting agent and food or beverage for promoting expression of microRNA" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,912, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kewpie Corp. (Tokyo).

"MicroRNA expression promoting agent and food or beverage for promoting expression of microRNA" was invented by Kurataka Otsuka (Chofu, Japan) and Takahiro Ochiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a microRNA expression promoting agent, containing pterostilbene, wherein the microRNA is at least one selected from the group consisting of miR-34a, miR-16, miR-126, miR-193b, and let-7a."

The patent was filed on March 5, 2020, under Application No. 17/436,721.

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