US Patent Issued to DSM IP Assets on Oct. 6 for "Infant formula with low level of arsenic" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,477, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DSM IP Assets B.V. (Maastricht, Netherlands).

"Infant formula with low level of arsenic" was invented by Nikolay Khanzhin (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland) and Pierre Chassagne (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Infant formulae with a very low level of arsenic are obtained by selecting the components of the infant formula very carefully. For manufacturing infant formulae that comprise less than 95 parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic, it is preferred to use human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) that have been isolated from a fermentation broth without using activated carbon in the last ...