ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,713, issued on July 8, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Methods for the improvement and maintenance of weight loss" was invented by Francois-Pierre Martin (Vuisternens-devant-Romont, Switzerland), Jorg Hager (Houtaud, France), Jerome Carayol (Pully, Switzerland) and Armand Valsesia (Chavannes-pres-Renens, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a nutritional composition for use in a weight loss dietary intervention or maintenance of weight, particularly following a dietary intervention, preferably a low caloric diet intervention. The nutritional composition havin...