US Patent Issued to SunRegen Healthcare on April 7 for "Lipids with odd number of carbon atoms and their use as pharmaceutical composition or nutritional supplement" (Chinese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,255, issued on April 7, was assigned to SunRegen Healthcare AG (Reinach, Switzerland).

"Lipids with odd number of carbon atoms and their use as pharmaceutical composition or nutritional supplement" was invented by Yuhong Dong (Basel-land, Switzerland), Chun-Hsiung Chang (Taiwan, China) and Sheng-Tang Lin (Taiwan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lipids bearing fatty acids with an odd number of carbon atoms can be used as pharmaceuticals or nutritional supplements. In particular, such lipids are used in the treatment and/or prevention of neurodegenerative diseases, optic and retinal degenerative diseases, demyelinating diseases, n...