US Patent Issued to OMPHAX on June 23 for "Method for obtaining oleocanthal type secoiridoids and for producing respective pharmaceutical preparations" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,382, issued on June 23, was assigned to OMPHAX SA (Ano Liosia, Greece).

"Method for obtaining oleocanthal type secoiridoids and for producing respective pharmaceutical preparations" was invented by Prokopios Magiatis (Ampelakia Attikis, Greece), Eleni Melliou (Ampelakia Attikis, Greece), Panagiotis Diamantakos (Voula Attikis, Greece) and Aimilia Rigakou (Xirokampi Lakonias, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the method for obtaining in pure form or as a mixture of the bioactive diol forms of the main secoiridoid phenols present in olive oil and certain isomeric forms or derivatives thereof. Specifi...