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The global patent landscape of functional food innovation

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An analysis of patent documents reveals a trend of increasing interest in functional food innovations that may aid future decision-making in research, business and policymaking.

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Fig. 1: Annual publication numbers and top patent owners of the functional food patent documents.
Fig. 2: Most frequently mentioned diseases and food crops in the titles of the functional food patent documents.

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  1. Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Magdalenka, Poland

    Maima Matin, Agnieszka Wierzbicka, Jarosław Olav Horbańczuk, Artur Jóźwik & Atanas G. Atanasov

  2. Hrg Scientific, Varaždin, Croatia

    Dalibor Hrg

  3. Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Healthcare Lab, AI2H Laboratory, Varaždin, Croatia

    Dalibor Hrg

  4. National University of Pharmacy of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Olena Litvinova

  5. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Olena Litvinova & Atanas G. Atanasov

  6. Division of Medical Biology, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland

    Małgorzata Łysek-Gładysinska

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M.M. and A.G.A. designed the study, conducted the analysis, interpreted the results and wrote the paper. D.H. provided guidance on biomedical natural language processing and a part of analysis. O.L. contributed to defining the scope of the study. M.M., D.H., O.L., M.Ł.-G., A.W., J.O.H., A.J. and A.G.A. commented on the paper draft and approved the submission.

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Matin, M., Hrg, D., Litvinova, O. et al. The global patent landscape of functional food innovation. Nat Biotechnol 42, 1493–1497 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02410-0

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