US Patent Issued to OMPHAX on Nov. 11 for "Method for obtaining oleacein and oleomissional type secoiridoids and for producing respective pharmaceutical preparations" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,779, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OMPHAX SA (Ano Liosia, Greece).

"Method for obtaining oleacein and oleomissional type secoiridoids and for producing respective pharmaceutical preparations" was invented by Prokopios Magiatis (Ampelakia Attikis, Greece), Eleni Melliou (Ampelakia Attikis, Greece), Panagiotis Diamantakos (Voula Attikis, Greece) and Aimilia Rigakou (Xirokampi Lakonias, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for obtaining in pure form or in a mixture the oleacein and oleomissional substances from olive fruits and leaves and certain derivatives thereof, the bioactive diol for...