US Patent Issued to SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE on March 18 for "Medium chain triglyceride compositions" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,367, issued on March 18, was assigned to SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Medium chain triglyceride compositions" was invented by Bernard Cuenoud (Cully, Switzerland) and Mojgan Masoodi (Eclublens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition comprising medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) wherein the composition comprises (i) a MCT comprising three fatty acid moieties each with 8 carbon atoms (MCT-C8) and (ii) a MCT comprising three fatty acid moieties each with 10 carbon atoms (MCT-C10); wherein the ratio of MCT-C8 to MCT-C10 is from 10:90 to 90:10 (mol/mol) and wherein the combined amount of MCT-C8...