ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,639, issued on April 14, was assigned to MEGMILK SNOW BRAND Co. LTD. (Hokkaido, Japan).
"Joint function-improving composition" was invented by Ayatake Nakano (Hokkaido, Japan), Takehiko Yasueda (Hokkaido, Japan) and Yasuyuki Seto (Hokkaido, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a joint function-improving composition which is useful for prevention or treatment of various arthropathies such as osteoarthritis including knee osteoarthritis as a typical example and rheumatoid arthritis because the composition has an action of promoting growth of chondrocytes and an action of suppressing the production of an inflamm...