ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,795, issued on June 10, was assigned to WAKUNAGA PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autophagy activating agent" was invented by Junichiro Suzuki (Akitakata, Japan), Yukihiro Kodera (Akitakata, Japan) and Satomi Miki (Akitakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a compound used for activating autophagy, which has few side effects and mild effects comprising S1PC or a salt thereof as an active ingredient."

The patent was filed on June 6, 2019, under Application No. 16/972,414.

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