ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,104, 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 sarcopenia and frailty" was invented by Pascal Stuelsatz (Crissier, Switzerland), Jerome Feige (Crissier, Switzerland), Joris Michaud (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Eugenia Linda Migliavacca (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition contains Nicotinamide and pyridoxine. The composition may be an oral nutritional composition, for example a nutritional supplement, an oral nutritional supplement, a food product, a foo...