ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,153, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NANJING NUTRABUILDING BIO-TECH Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Methods for ameliorating and preventing age-related muscle degeneration" was invented by Ronghua Yi (Nanjing, China), Mingru Wang (Nanjing, China) and Kylin Liao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among others, the present invention provides methods for ameliorating and preventing age-associated muscle degeneration in a mammal, comprising administrating to the mammal in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of L-Ergothioneine, an analog or derivative thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, acid, ester, an...