US Patent Issued to fairlife on Jan. 27 for "Production and separation of milk fractions with electrodialysis" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,895, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to fairlife LLC (Chicago).

"Production and separation of milk fractions with electrodialysis" was invented by Shakeel Ur Rehman (Naperville, Ill.) and Kamil Piotr Drapala (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for preparing dairy compositions utilize an electrodialysis apparatus to separate a feed stream into a lactose stream and a mineral stream. The feed stream can be a UF permeate fraction, a NF retentate fraction, or a RO retentate fraction. The brine input to the electrodialysis apparatus can be a milk mineral stream."

The patent was filed on July 14, 2021, under Application No. 18/...