US Patent Issued to Nutreco IP Assets on Feb. 17 for "Methods to improve health and wellbeing in ruminants" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,456, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nutreco IP Assets B.V. (Boxmeer, Netherlands).

"Methods to improve health and wellbeing in ruminants" was invented by John Henry Doelman (Boxmeer, Netherlands) and Javier Martin-Tereso Lopez (Boxmeer, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of animal feed, feed supplements, premixes, and feed additives, more particular for ruminants, even more particular for improvement of metabolism and overall health, wellbeing and longevity of a ruminant animal. Provided are methods to increase circulating glucose levels in the blood, to decrease circulating beta-hydr...