US Patent Issued to SHIONOGI & Co. on Jan. 13 for "Pharmaceutical composition for treating fatty liver disease" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,375, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SHIONOGI & Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pharmaceutical composition for treating fatty liver disease" was invented by Hideo Yukioka (Osaka, Japan), Atsuyuki Shimazaki (Osaka, Japan), Tadateru Hamada (Osaka, Japan) and Naoki Ohyabu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for treating and/or preventing fatty liver disease, particularly nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, the pharmaceutical composition having an excellent ACC2-selective inhibitory action and having no side effects such as an increase in plasma triglyceride or a decrease in platelet concentra...