ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,118, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AXCESS GLOBAL SCIENCES LLC (Washington, Utah).

"Enriched R-beta-hydroxybutyrate composition" was invented by Gary Millet (Salt Lake City), Ryan Lowery (Tampa, Fla.), Jacob Wilson (Tampa, Fla.) and Terry Lacore (Melissa, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beta-hydroxybutyrate compositions for administering ketone bodies to a subject include a non-racemic mixture of R-beta-hydroxybutyrate and S-beta-hydroxybutyrate enriched with R-beta-hydroxybutyrate so as to contain more than 50% and less than 100% by enantiomeric equivalents of R-beta-hydroxybutyrate and less than 50% and more than 0% by ena...