ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,068, issued on March 17, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Compositions containing amino acids and methods of using such compositions for treating sarcopenia" was invented by Claudia Roessle (Morges, Switzerland), Denis Breuille (Lausanne, Switzerland), Eugenia Migliavacca (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Jerome Feige (Crissier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition contains one or more aromatic amino acids and optionally vitamin B6. The composition may be an oral nutritional composition, for example a nutritional supplement, an oral nutritional supplement, a food product, a food f...