US Patent Issued to N.V. Nutricia on March 4 for "Dietary fiber for treating patients suffering from methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,649, issued on March 4, was assigned to N.V. Nutricia (Zoetermeer, Netherlands).

"Dietary fiber for treating patients suffering from methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia" was invented by Mirjam Kuhn (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Maryam Rakhshandehroo (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a composition comprising dietary fiber for use in the dietary management of methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) and/or propionic acidemia (PA), and/or for use in treating and/or reducing MMA and/or PA, and/or treating, reducing and/or preventing symptoms associated therewith."

The patent was filed on Oct....