ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,333, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Method for the determination of processing influences on the energy value of feedstuff raw materials and/or feedstuffs" was invented by Markus Wiltafsky-Martin (Moembris, Germany) and Johann Fickler (Moemlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented methods for the determination and/or assessment of processing influences on the energy value of a feedstuff raw material and/or feedstuff, in which the processing conditions indicator of the feedstuff raw material and/or feedstuff is determined and the corrected energy values of the f...