US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on March 25 for "Nutritional composition comprising 2'-Fucosyllactose (2' FL) to improve the gastrointestinal barrier" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,259, issued on March 25, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Nutritional composition comprising 2'-Fucosyllactose (2' FL) to improve the gastrointestinal barrier" was invented by Clara Lucia Garcia-Rodenas (Forel, Switzerland), Jane Mea M Natividad (Lausanne, Switzerland), Andreas Rytz (Carrouge, Switzerland), Sami Damak (Lausanne, Switzerland), Norbert Sprenger (Savigny, Switzerland), Francis Foata (La Conversion, Switzerland), Florence Rochat (Montreux, Switzerland) and Claire Laurence Lucie Marie Boulange (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to nut...