US Patent Issued to N.V. Nutricia on Nov. 3 for "Nutritional compositions for gut barrier function" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,973, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to N.V. Nutricia (Zoetermeer, Netherlands).

"Nutritional compositions for gut barrier function" was invented by Selma Paulien Wiertsema (Utrecht, Netherlands), Saskia Adriana Overbeek (Utrecht, Netherlands), Ingrid Brunhilde Renes (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Lauriane Emmanuelle Melanie Schwebel (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns nutritional compositions for infants and young children that are high in oleic acid and low in palmitic acid and comprise galacto-oligosaccharides, in particular including beta1,3'-galactosyllactose. The nutritional composition...