Patents by Inventor Sue-Mei Liu

Sue-Mei Liu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Black soybean polysaccharides
    Patent number: 6838096
    Abstract: A nutraceutical composition containing 0.01-99% by weight polysaccharides enriched from an extract of beans of Glycine max (L.) Merr. Also disclosed are a method of enriching polysaccharides from pulverized beans of Glycine max (L.) Merr.; a polysaccharide having a backbone of ?-(1,6)-linked glucose residues, and one or more galactose or mannose residues are bonded to the C-3 or C-4 position of one or more of the glucose residues by a (1,3)- or a (1,4)-linkage; and a method of treating a subject with such polysaccharides to increase blood cell counts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Taipei Veterans General Hospital
    Inventors: Sue-Mei Liu, Hui-Fen Liao, Tsung-Chung Lin, Sheng-Yuan Wang