ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,608, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ecovatec Solutions Inc. (Abbotsford, Canada).

"Methods of separating phosvitin and HDL from an egg yolk product and resulting compositions" was invented by William Perrin (White Rock, Canada), Christopher Nichols (Coquitlam, Canada), Harry Ten Haaf (Langley, Canada) and Glenn Nichols (Maple Ridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a method of separating phosvitin and HDL proteins from an egg yolk composition. The egg yolk composition includes HDL proteins bound to phosvitin. At least a portion of the HDL proteins are hydrolysed to cause the HDL proteins and phosvitin to become unboun...