Cenestra Health announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a key patent related to the company's high-purity omega-3 fatty acid formulations and their methods of use. U.S. Patent No. 7652068, entitled "Omega-3 Fatty Acid Formulations," covers a unique, high-purity formulation of the omega-3 fatty acids EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid).
"The claims allowed by the USPTO are an important milestone for Cenestra Health's scientific efforts to differentiate its novel omega-3 formulations," said Ann Coric, M.D., a co-founder of the company. "Our research supports a paradigm shift in thinking about omega-3s by showing that the relative ratios of EPA and DHA play an important role in the beneficial effects of omega-3 fatty acids. The idea that all omega-3 formulations are the same just doesn't hold up anymore--we've shown that purity and the relative ratio of EPA to DHA confer unique properties to the action of omega-3 fatty acids."