US Patent Issued to NISSHIN PHARMA on April 15 for "Eicosapentaenoic acid alkyl ester-containing composition and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,699, issued on April 15, was assigned to NISSHIN PHARMA INC. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Eicosapentaenoic acid alkyl ester-containing composition and method for producing same" was invented by Ichiro Goto (Ueda, Japan), Masataka Harata (Ueda, Japan) and Shingo Nonaka (Ueda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a high-concentration and high-purity eicosapentaenoic acid-containing composition. A method for producing an eicosapentaenoic acid alkyl ester-containing composition, the method includes: (1) bringing a raw oil that contains an eicosapentaenoic acid alkyl ester into contact with an aqueous solution that contains a silver s...