ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,226, issued on April 7, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF RHEOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF FOOD Co. LTD. (Fukuoka, Japan).
"Method for promoting collagen production" was invented by Takehiko Fujino (Fukuoka, Japan), Shiro Mawatari (Fukuoka, Japan) and Masanori Honsho (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for promoting collagen production, which includes administering to a human a composition containing plasmalogen. The plasmalogen can be a plasmalogen extracted from animal tissues. The composition containing the plasmalogen can be administered to the human as an oral agent or as a parenteral agent. Parenteral agents include exter...