ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,929, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany).
"Bitter taste masking of peptides" was invented by Thrandur Helgason (Illertissen, Germany), Selina Marz (Illertissen, Germany) and Jochen Kutscher (Illertissen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a) a conjugated peptide being conjugated with at least one reducing sugar and a degree of conjugation of at least 10 percent, preferably being in solid form such as powders; b) a method for preparing non-bitter conjugated protein hydrolysates comprising hydrolyzing a protein by at least one enzyme, mixing the resulting protein hydrolysate and ...