ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,859, issued on May 19, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Human milk fortifier" was invented by Tinu Mary Samuel (Epalinges, Switzerland), Aristea Binia (Fribourg, Switzerland) and Norbert Sprenger (Savigny, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human milk fortifier composition comprising one or more human milk oligosaccharides. Said human milk fortifier composition may be tailored to fortify the breast milk of a primiparous woman."
The patent was filed on July 5, 2018, under Application No. 16/628,736.
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