US Patent Issued to Buhler on Feb. 18 for "Method to convert insects or worms into nutrient streams and compositions obtained thereby" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,912, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Buhler AG (Uzwil, Switzerland).

"Method to convert insects or worms into nutrient streams and compositions obtained thereby" was invented by Tarique Arsiwalla (Amsterdam) and Kees Wilhelmus Petrus Aarts (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fat-containing composition obtained by converting insects or worms into nutrient streams, such as a fat-containing, an aqueous protein-containing and a solid-containing fraction, including (a) squashing insects or worms thereby obtaining a pulp, the insects or worms reduced in size, (b) heating the pulp to 70-100deg C., and (c) subjecting the heated pu...