US Patent Issued to Euro-Protein on Sept. 16 for "Method of and apparatus for industrially obtaining rape core oil and rape protein concentrate from rapeseed" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,967, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Euro-Protein GmbH (Friedland, Germany).

"Method of and apparatus for industrially obtaining rape core oil and rape protein concentrate from rapeseed" was invented by Waldemar Neumueller (Friedland-Ballenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In industrial processing, grains of rapeseed are dehulled. Cold-pressed rapeseed core oil is pressed from a low-hull grain fraction having at most 4 weight percent of hulls. In a press cake being generated, the cake temperature is limited to 70deg C., and a first residual oil content is reduced to 8 to 28 weight percent of the dry matter. Pressuri...