Patents by Inventor Tunekazu Watanabe

Tunekazu Watanabe 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).

  • CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING AGENTS, SECONDARY BILE ACID PRODUCTION INHIBITORS AND FOODS AND DRINKS
    Publication number: 20080260709
    Abstract: Secondary bile acid production inhibitors and cholesterol-lowering agents containing a yeast as the active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Haruji SAWADA, Yasuto Yoshida, Yasue Wada, Kenji Ohishi, Masahiko Itoh, Wakae Yokoi, Tunekazu Watanabe
  • Cholesterol-lowering agents, secondary bile acid production inhibitors and foods and drinks
    Patent number: 7413740
    Abstract: Secondary bile acid production inhibitors and cholesterol-lowering agents containing a yeast as the active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Haruji Sawada, Yasuto Yoshida, Yasue Wada, Kenji Ohishi, Masahiko Itoh, Wakae Yokoi, Tunekazu Watanabe
  • Cholesterol-lowering agents, secondary bile acid production inhibitors, and foods and drinks
    Patent number: 7101544
    Abstract: Secondary bile acid production inhibitors and cholesterol-lowering agents containing a yeast as the active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Haruji Sawada, Yasuto Yoshida, Yasue Wada, Kenji Ohishi, Masahiko Itoh, Wakae Yokoi, Tunekazu Watanabe
  • Cholesterol-lowering agents, secondary bile acid production inhibitors and foods and drinks
    Publication number: 20050244426
    Abstract: Secondary bile acid production inhibitors and cholesterol-lowering agents containing a yeast as the active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Haruji Sawada, Yasuto Yoshida, Yasue Wada, Kenji Ohishi, Masahiko Itoh, Wakae Yokoi, Tunekazu Watanabe
  • Antihypertensives containing polysaccharide peptidoglycan complexes extracted from the cell wall of lactic acid bacteria
    Patent number: 5234904
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antihypertensives and food and drinks, containing as effective component polysaccharideglycopeptide complexes derived from cell wall of Gram positive bacteria (also referred to as peptidoglycan). The present invention provides extremely strong and safe antihypertensives and food and drinks, which may exert hypotensive effects if administered orally to spontaneous hypertensive rats and renal hypertensive rats at a single dose as low as 1 mg/kg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Haruji Sawada, Masayoshi Furusiro, Kouichi Hirai, Mahoko Motoike, Tunekazu Watanabe, Teruo Yokokura, Masaaki Watanuki, Seizaburo Kobayashi