US Patent Issued to AVRIL, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on Nov. 11 for "Protein isolate" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,062, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AVRIL (Paris), UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE (Nancy, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Protein isolate" was invented by Claire Defaix (Villers-les-Nancy, France), Romain Kapel (Saint Max, France) and Olivier Galet (Tregueux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a protein isolate from an oilseed meal, and the isolate thus obtained, said isolate comprising proteins and an amount of 4 wt % or less of phytic acid, said amount of phytic acid being by weight of proteins in said isolate. The process may comprise the following steps: a) providing an oi...