ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,919, issued on May 13, was assigned to MIE UNIVERSITY (Tsu, Japan).
"Methods of treatment and prevention using 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid" was invented by Toshiyuki Shibata (Tsu, Japan), Hideo Miyake (Tsu, Japan), Reiji Tanaka (Tsu, Japan), Fumino Okuda (Tsu, Japan) and Mano Hasegawa (Tsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a patient in need thereof includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid (DEH) to serve or function as a nerve growth factor (NGF) activity promoter, preferably to treat and/or prevent a neurodegenerative disease, suc...