US Patent Issued to TOYO SHINYAKU on Jan. 13 for "Anti-obesity composition and composition for oral administration" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,366, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYO SHINYAKU Co. LTD. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Anti-obesity composition and composition for oral administration" was invented by Chie Nakashima (Saga, Japan), Takumi Morikawa (Saga, Japan) and Tomoyasu Kamiya (Saga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to provide an anti-obesity composition and an oral administration composition that can promote the gene expression of proteins such as PGC1Alpha and UCP1 that are involved in brown adipocytes and the energy consumption activity of the brown adipocytes, and have the effect of promoting the energy consumption act...