US Patent Issued to KetoLipix Therapeutics on July 7 for "Process for preparing polyol-based esters of acyl-capped hydroxy carboxylic acids" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,026, issued on July 7, was assigned to KetoLipix Therapeutics GmbH (Germany).

"Process for preparing polyol-based esters of acyl-capped hydroxy carboxylic acids" was invented by Dirk Lochmann (Witten, Germany), Sebastian Reyer (Witten, Germany) and Michael Stehr (Witten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing polyol esters, especially polyglycerol esters, of acyl-capped or acyl-blocked 3-hydroxybutyric acid as well as the products thus obtained and to their functionalized (e. g. esterified) derivatives, as well as to the various uses and applications of these products."

The patent was f...