US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Nov. 3 for "Nutritional composition comprising human milk oligosaccharides" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,972, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Nutritional composition comprising human milk oligosaccharides" was invented by Carine Blanchard (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Sebastien Holvoet (Montpreveyres, Switzerland), Dominique Sandra Donnicola (Servion, Switzerland) and Cheong Kwet Choy Kwong Chung (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nutritional composition comprising the human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) 2'-fucosyllactose (2FL), 3'-fucosyl-lactose (3FL), 3-sialyllactose (SSL), and lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT). The nutritional composition is useful for indu...