US Patent Issued to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on March 24 for "Composition for preventing, alleviating or treating sarcopenia, containing D-ribo-2-hexulose as active ingredient" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,614, issued on March 24, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Composition for preventing, alleviating or treating sarcopenia, containing D-ribo-2-hexulose as active ingredient" was invented by Eun-Young Kwon (Daegu, South Korea), Youngji Han (Daegu, South Korea) and Ji-Eun Kim (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for preventing, alleviating or treating sarcopenia, containing D-ribo-2-hexulose as an active ingredient. D-ribo-2-hexulose of the present invention is a sweetener capable of replacing sugar,...