Total Nutraceutical Solutions Licenses Pulsed UV Light Patent from the Penn State Research Foundation

STEVENSON, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Total Nutraceutical Solutions, Inc. (TNS) (OTCBB:TNUS) announced today that the company has acquired from The Penn State Research Foundation (PSRF) an exclusive license agreement on the invention (the “Invention”) entitled “Methods and Compositions for Improving the Nutritional Content of Mushrooms and Fungi.” This invention is covered by the United States Patent Application No. 12/386,810, filed on April 23, 2009 and is also derived from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/047,268, filed on April 23, 2008, and names Robert Beelman and Michael Kalaras as co-inventors.

Pulsed UV light is a technology that delivers energy from light at a high peak power in a short amount of time. This technology results in the production by certain mushrooms of large amounts of Vitamin D2 within periods of time, varying from 1–30 seconds.

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