ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,606, issued on March 11, was assigned to Bunge Loders Croklaan B.V. (Wormerveer, Netherlands).
"Fat composition" was invented by Krishnadath Bhaggan (Wormerveer, Netherlands), Jeanine Werleman (Wormerveer, Netherlands), Willem Dekker (Wormerveer, Netherlands) and Antina Frederine Frericks (Wormerveer, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fat composition comprises: from 48% to 58% by weight of lauric acid (C12:0); from 5% to 15% by weight palmitic acid (C16:0); from 5% to 20% by weight stearic acid (C18:0); and a weight ratio of stearic acid (C18:0) to palmitic acid (C16:0) of from 0.5:1 to 2.5:1; the percentages of acids ref...