US Patent Issued to YAMASA on June 23 for "Muscular atrophy inhibitor and method for inhibiting muscular atrophy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,369, issued on June 23, was assigned to YAMASA Corp. (Choshi, Japan).

"Muscular atrophy inhibitor and method for inhibiting muscular atrophy" was invented by Kosuke Nakagawara (Choshi, Japan), Chieri Takeuchi (Choshi, Japan) and Kazuya Ishige (Choshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a muscular atrophy inhibitor comprising at least one pyrimidine nucleotide or a precursor thereof as an active ingredient. Also, the present invention is a method for inhibiting muscular atrophy by administrating at least one pyrimidine nucleotide or a precursor thereof."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2021, under Applicat...