ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,914, issued on June 3, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods using one or more autophagy-inducing amino acids to potentiate musculoskeletal effect of one or more anabolic amino acids" was invented by Jerome Feige (Crissier, Switzerland), Philipp Gut (Geneva), Gabriele Civiletto (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Claire Boutry (Villars Burquin, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of potentiating musculoskeletal effect of one or more anabolic amino acids in an individual in need thereof can include administering to the individual in need thereof a composition containing...