US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on July 28 for "Compositions containing nicotinamide and vitamin B6 and methods of using such compositions for treating cachexia or precachexia" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,105, issued on July 28, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Compositions containing nicotinamide and vitamin B6 and methods of using such compositions for treating cachexia or precachexia" was invented by Pascal Stuelsatz (Crissier, Switzerland), Jerome Feige (Crissier, Switzerland) and Joris Michaud (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composition containing Nicotinamide and vitamin B6 are provided. The composition may be an oral nutritional composition, for example a nutritional supplement, an oral nutritional supplement, a food product, a food for special medical purpose (FSMP)....