US Patent Issued to SMARTBUBBLE on July 8 for "Satiety inducing food products and preparation thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,712, issued on July 8, was assigned to SMARTBUBBLE LTD. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"Satiety inducing food products and preparation thereof" was invented by Alon Golan (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Adi Etzioni (Kibbutz Tzora, Israel) and Oded Edelheit (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a satiety inducing food product including Agar and Alginate particles having a size range of about 0.5-30 mm, wherein the particles are configured to remain essentially intact in the stomach and in the intestine so as to occupy volume within the stomach and the intestine and thereby induce satiety."

The patent was filed ...