ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,144, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).
"Oil processing systems and methods for manufacturing a refined vegetable oil" was invented by Falk Bruse (Drensteinfurt, Germany), Armin Willem-Friedrich Hermann Tarnow (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Gijsbertus Johannes Van Rossum (Spijkenisse, Netherlands) and Ignacio Vilas Eguileta (Spijkenisse, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing a refined vegetable oil having a reduced content of 3-monochloropropane-1.2-diol fatty acid (3-MCPD) esters characterized in that it comprises the following steps: treating a deodorized vegetable oil with ...