US Patent Issued to MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY on Nov. 3 for "Composition for babies and infants for improving memory ability in childhood" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,990, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Composition for babies and infants for improving memory ability in childhood" was invented by Takashi Takeuchi (Tottori, Japan), Akari Hiraku (Kanagawa, Japan) and Noriyuki Iwabuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem of the invention is to provide a technique for improving memory ability in later childhood, and the problem is solved by a composition for an infant and/or child for improving memory ability in later childhood, wherein the composition contains Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis as an active ingredient."

The patent ...