ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,105, issued on March 31, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Human milk fortifier composition" was invented by Michael Affolter (Savigny, Switzerland), Sean Christopher Austin (Mezieres, Switzerland) and Clara Lucia Garcia-Rodenas (Forel, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a preterm human milk fortifier composition, more specifically to a preterm milk fortifier composition providing 2'-FL and/or LNFP-I in amounts that are missing in human milk of women who gave birth to a preterm infant. In particular the present invention relates to a fortifier composition...