ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,932, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).
"Modified pea protein production method" was invented by Hiroshi Takayanagi (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakagoshi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Rikiya Ishida (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods including (1) a step of obtaining a water dispersion of a pea ground product by dry pulverizing the pea and mixing same with water, or wet pulverizing the pea in water, (2) a step of obtaining an enzymatic reaction mixture by adding transglutaminase to a solution obtained by removing solid substances from the water dispersion obtained in step (1) or the water dispers...