ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,868, issued on June 10, was assigned to BIOSEUTICA B.V. (Zeewolde BD, Netherlands).

"Purified fish proteases with high specific activities and its process of production" was invented by Alex Nobar Yousif (Coquitlam, Canada), Priyanka Dutta Passecker (Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria), Valerio Maria Ferrari (Milan) and Jay Siddharth (Bissone, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a process for the preparation of fish proteases from fish viscera, preferably from cod (Gadus genus) viscera. The fish proteases produced according to the invention have high specific enzymatic activity and are useful for food uses, ...