US Patent Issued to NIPPON FINE CHEMICAL on March 3 for "Phospholipid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,510, issued on March 3, was assigned to NIPPON FINE CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Phospholipid" was invented by Koji Tomita (Takasago, Japan), Yuki Inoue (Takasago, Japan), Ayano Yokouchi (Takasago, Japan), Sae Asayama (Takasago, Japan) and Naofumi Fukata (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a charge-reversible phospholipid that is not positively charged at a pH of the body fluid (typically in the neutral range) and has low cytotoxicity.The present invention provides a phospholipid represented by formula (1): wherein m represents a natural number of 9 to 25, n represents a natural number...