US Patent Issued to Climax Foods on March 18 for "Structured protein isolates and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,953, issued on March 18, was assigned to Climax Foods Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Structured protein isolates and related methods" was invented by Avinash Singh Patel (Berkeley, Calif.), Daniel Westcott (Berkeley, Calif.), Malgorzata Jakubasch (Berkeley, Calif.) and Vivian Jones (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food product and/or an ingredient thereof can include: a lipid component, structured protein isolates, and/or any other ingredients. The method for forming structured protein isolates can include: obtaining protein isolate units from a protein source, and collecting the structured protein isolates."

The paten...