ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,658, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BUNGE LODERS CROKLAAN B.V. (Wormerveer, Netherlands).

"Method of preparing a randomly interesterified fat product" was invented by Jun Ma (Wormerveer, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing an edible randomly interesterified fat product comprises the steps of: a) providing a fat composition comprising from 0.5% to 25% by weight of free fatty acids; and b) reacting enzymatically the fat composition provided in step a) with from 0.5% to 10% by weight of a polyol compound based on the fat composition, wherein the weight ratio of free fatty acid in the fat composition to t...