US Patent Issued to MEGMILK SNOW BRAND on Aug. 18 for "Sleep promoting composition, and food product, medicinal product, and animal feed containing said composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,652, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to MEGMILK SNOW BRAND Co. Ltd. (Hokkaido, Japan).

"Sleep promoting composition, and food product, medicinal product, and animal feed containing said composition" was invented by Hiroki Murakami (Hokkaido, Japan), Taro Ko (Hokkaido, Japan), Hiroshi Ishimoto (Aichi, Japan), Azusa Kamikouchi (Aichi, Japan) and Ikue Mori (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for promoting sleep, that enables an increase of the sleep amounts in the overall night and in the initial stage of the night, a decrease of the sleep onset latent time, and an ...