US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on March 17 for "Methods for identifying pre-disposition to cognitive decline and agents for reducing or preventing cognitive decline, or improving cognitive ability" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,102, issued on March 17, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Methods for identifying pre-disposition to cognitive decline and agents for reducing or preventing cognitive decline, or improving cognitive ability" was invented by Gene Bowman (St-Sulpice, Switzerland), Julie Hudry-Labbe (Epalinges, Switzerland), Jeroen Antonius Johannes Schmitt (Moudon, Switzerland), Corina Mudini (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Claus Rieker (Fribourg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying pre-disposition to cognitive decline in a subject, the method comprising determining levels of: (a) omeg...