USANA Awarded Patent for Olive Materials

USANA Awarded Patent for Olive Materials

SALT LAKE CITY--USANA Inc. (www.usana.com) was assigned a U.S. patent (No. 6,358,542) covering antioxidant compositions extracted from olives and olive by-products. Invented by John Cuomo et al, the patent includes methods of extracting antioxidant compositions from olive-based materials and ways of increasing the antioxidant activity of products made through such methods.