US Patent Issued to Cargill on Oct. 7 for "Seaweed flour" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,308, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Seaweed flour" was invented by Gueba Agoda-Tandjawa (Baupte, France), Helene Christelle Leroy (Baupte, France), Aurelie Loaec (Baupte, France) and Jacques Andre Christian Mazoyer (Baupte, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a seaweed-based powder. The seaweed-based powder of the present invention has the advantage that it does not deleteriously impact, or it impacts to a lesser extent, the desired colour of a product containing thereof. In addition, the seaweed-based powder of the present invention has the capacity to produce gels h...