ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,025, issued on June 17, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (Munich) and Universitat Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for obtaining fucoxanthin and fatty acids from the biomass of algae" was invented by Felix Derwenskus (Stuttgart, Germany), Ulrike Schmid-Staiger (Stuttgart, Germany) and Christian Bringmann (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods for obtaining a fucoxanthin-crystal-containing precipitate, in particular fucoxanthin crystals, in particular fucoxanthin, and a fatty-acid-containing lipid fraction, in particular fatty acid...