ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,107, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Yuki Gosei Kogyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Kyushu University National University Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Sirtuin activator, and method for activating sirtuin" was invented by Tetsuji Noda (Tokyo), Tomotsune Onaga (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Katakura (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive and effective sirtuin activator derived from natural products.The problem can be solved by a sirtuin activator comprising Beta-alanine or a salt thereof, or a composition for activating sirtuin comprising the sirtuin activator as an active ingredien...