ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,857, issued on May 19, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Compositions comprising human milk oligosaccharides for use in a subject to support night sleep duration" was invented by Clara Lucia Garcia-Rodenas (Forel, Switzerland), Jonas Hauser (Lausanne, Switzerland), Weili Lin (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Ziliang Zhu (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Seoyoon Cho (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Tengfei Li (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising at least one human milk oligosaccharide comprising 3' sialyllactose (3-SL), lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), core-HM...