US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on May 13 for "Treatment of food products" (Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,389, issued on May 13, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Treatment of food products" was invented by Andrea Johnson (Germantown, Tenn.), Brandon Cryar (Fortson, Ga.) and John R. Dankert (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method treats a food product for increasing the weight of the food product. The food product is an animal carcass, poultry, meat, seafood or parts thereof. The method includes introducing nano-bubbles (NB) into water or an aqueous solution to provide NB-including water and contacting the food product with NB-including water for a time sufficient to increase the weight of the food...