US Patent Issued to TCI on July 28 for "Method for improving bone health by using mangosteen shell extract" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,153, issued on July 28, was assigned to TCI Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for improving bone health by using mangosteen shell extract" was invented by Yung-Hsiang Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chung-An Tien (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving bone health is provided, including administering to a subject in need thereof a composition including a mangosteen shell extract. The mangosteen shell extract is prepared by performing a two-stage extraction on a fruit shell of mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) using an enzyme solution at different extraction temperatures sequentially."

The patent was filed on M...