ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,364, issued on July 8, was assigned to Xylome Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Lipid body compositions, products made therefrom, methods of making same, and methods of use" was invented by Thomas W. Jeffries (Madison, Wis.), Thomas J. Kelleher (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), David Z. Mokry (Madison, Wis.), Richard Taylor (Madison, Wis.), Austin Gluth (Stoughton, Wis.) and Merrill S. Goldenberg (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides lipid bodies isolated from yeast, compositions comprising the lipid bodies, products made from the lipid bodies, methods of making the lipid bodies, and methods of using the lipid bodi...