ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,209, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NITTA GELATIN INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Biological function regulating agent, epidermal metabolism promoting agent, fat accumulation inhibiting agent, fat decomposition promoting agent, adiponectin production promoting agent, functional food, cosmetic product, and method for producing biological function regulating agent" was invented by Seiko Koizumi (Yao, Japan), Mona Sato (Yao, Japan), Ai Himeno (Yao, Japan) and Toshirou Watanabe (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological function regulating agent comprises a fermented collagen peptide, and the fermented collagen peptide has ...