ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,523, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NUTRITION ACT Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Ibaraki, Japan).
"HIF-1 activator" was invented by Hiroko Isoda (Tsukuba, Japan), Shinji Kondo (Tsukuba, Japan), Farhana Ferdousi (Tsukuba, Japan), Masahito Ishikawa (Tokyo), Youko Watanabe (Toyko, Japan), Ken Yamauchi (Toyko, Japan) and Miki Yokozawa (Toyko, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an HIF-1 activator for treatment, prevention, alleviation, improvement or recovery from diseases or symptoms associated with reduced HIF-1 activity, as well as a pharmaceutical composition, cosmetic and food composition com...