US Patent Issued to Bio Minerals on Feb. 17 for "Water soluble silicon-containing granulate" (Japanese, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,441, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bio Minerals NV (Destelbergen, Belgium).

"Water soluble silicon-containing granulate" was invented by Mario Remi Yvonne Calomme (Edegem, Belgium), Keno Ishihara (Tokyo), Masako Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Richard Alan Passwater (Berlin, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-soluble silicon-containing granulate comprising a silicon compound of the formula YxSi(OH)4-x or an oligomer thereof, wherein Y is optionally substituted (C1-C4)alkyl, (C2-C5)-alkenyl, (C1-C4)-alkoxy, amino, and wherein x is 0-2, and a cold-water soluble starch material."

The patent was filed on Nov. 11, 2019, under Ap...