US Patent Issued to TOYO SHINYAKU on Sept. 30 for "Composition for maintaining or improving oral immune function" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,178, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYO SHINYAKU Co. LTD. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Composition for maintaining or improving oral immune function" was invented by Takumi Morikawa (Saga, Japan), Takashi Iwamoto (Saga, Japan), Makoto Suzuki (Saga, Japan), Shinichiro Takashima (Saga, Japan) and Tomoyasu Kamiya (Saga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is a composition comprising young barley grass, used for promoting salivary IgA secretion, maintaining or improving oral immune function, or mucosal immune function, or preventing or alleviating upper airway infection."

The patent was filed on March 24, 2022, under Application No. 17...