ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,132, issued on July 28.

"Sperm motility improving agent and sperm motility improving method" was invented by Megumi Tanaka (Tokyo), Tsunemaru Tanaka (Tokyo) and Masayuki Shimada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[PROBLEM] To provide a sperm motility improvement agent that is highly safe and may effectively improve sperm motility.[SOLUTION] A sperm motility improvement agent comprising nicotinamide mononucleotide as an active ingredient."

The patent was filed on Sept. 7, 2021, under Application No. 18/044,089.

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