US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY on June 2 for "Sugar-restricted, high-fat diet for improving liver disease" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,289, issued on June 2, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Sugar-restricted, high-fat diet for improving liver disease" was invented by Keisuke Hagihara (Osaka, Japan) and Katsufumi Kajimoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a sugar-restricted, high-fat diet for improving liver disease. In the sugar-restricted, high-fat diet, daily fat intake may be set at 120 g or more based on a real body weight of 50 kg or set at an amount corresponding to 70% or more of the total daily energy intake. The sugar-restricted, high-fat diet can reduce body fat mass and AST, ALT, and Gamma-GTP leve...