US Patent Issued to Morinaga Milk Industry on June 16 for "Mitochondrial function-improving composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,844, issued on June 16, was assigned to Morinaga Milk Industry Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mitochondrial function-improving composition" was invented by Kazuya Toda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shin Yoshimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect is to provide an active ingredient which can improve mitochondrial function. Another aspect is to provide a composition for suppressing muscle inflammation or muscular atrophy. One, two, or more kinds selected from a bacterium of the genus Akkermansia, a culture of the bacterium and a treated product of the bacterium are used as an active ingredient in a mitochondrial function-improving ...