US Patent Issued to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on May 12 for "Short chain fatty acid compounds and uses thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,885, issued on May 12, was assigned to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"Short chain fatty acid compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Christian Schafmeister (Philadelphia), Alla Arzumanyan (Huntington Valley, Pa.) and Ira C. Spector (Jenkintown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes compositions comprising at least one short chain fatty acid (SCFA). The present disclosure describes compositions comprising at least one SCFA wherein one or more hydrogen atoms in the SCFA or the pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof is isotopically enhanced in deuteriu...