US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on May 27 for "Compositions and methods for weight loss maintenance" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,938, issued on May 27, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Compositions and methods for weight loss maintenance" was invented by Dominic Paul D'Agostino (Tampa, Fla.), Angela Marie Poff (Tampa, Fla.) and Andrew Paul Koutnik (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for inducing weight loss, fat loss, maintaining weight or fat loss, suppressing appetite, reducing calorie intake, reducing weight gain, decreasing feed efficiency, increasing metabolic inefficiency, increasing energy expenditure, increasing thermogenesis and/or resetting metabolic set are disclosed. The compositions...