ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,608, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Nutritional composition and infant formula for promoting de novo myelination" was invented by Nora Schneider (Epalinges, Switzerland), Jonas Hauser (Lausanne, Switzerland), Sean Deoni (Providence, R.I.), Tamas Bartfai (Stockholm) and Jonathan O'Regan (County Kerry, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic nutritional composition containing a phospholipid and/or a metabolic precursor and/or metabolite thereof for use to promote, support or optimise de novo myelination, in particular the de novo myelination trajectory, and/or brain s...