US Patent Issued to Abbott Laboratories on April 7 for "Nutritional compositions comprising human milk oligosaccharides and nucleotides and uses thereof for treating and/or preventing enteric viral infection" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,288, issued on April 7, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Nutritional compositions comprising human milk oligosaccharides and nucleotides and uses thereof for treating and/or preventing enteric viral infection" was invented by Rachael Buck (Gahanna, Ohio), Debra Thomas (Columbus, Ohio) and Joseph Schaller (Reynoldsburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are nutritional compositions including human milk oligosaccharides and nucleotides that can be administered to preterm infants, term infants, toddlers, and children for reducing inflammation and the incidence of inflammatory diseases."

The patent w...