ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,173, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Noster Inc. (Muko, Japan).
"Metabolism-improving agent comprising rare fatty acid" was invented by Jun Ogawa (Kyoto, Japan), Shigenobu Kishino (Kyoto, Japan), Teruo Kawada (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuyuki Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Tsuyoshi Goto (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasunori Yonejima (Muko, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a metabolism improving agent containing a rare fatty acid such as hydroxylated fatty acid, oxo fatty acid and the like, and further, food, pharmaceutical product and the like containing the metabolism improving agent."
The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2021, und...