US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on June 9 for "Dietary butyrate and its uses" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,923, issued on June 9, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Dietary butyrate and its uses" was invented by Elizabeth Forbes-Blom (La Conversion, Switzerland), Amaury Patin (Lausanne, Switzerland), Carine Blanchard (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Mario Noti (Vulliens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of a compound having the formula (1) (2) (3) (4) or, or combinations thereof, for providing a source of butyrate with improved organoleptic properties wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently a long chain fatty acid having between 16 and 20 carbons for use in promoting imm...