US Patent Issued to Glanbia Nutritionals on May 13 for "Protein compositions for plant-based food products and methods for making" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,386, issued on May 13, was assigned to Glanbia Nutritionals Ltd. (Kilkenny, Ireland).

"Protein compositions for plant-based food products and methods for making" was invented by Tucker J. Smith (Twin Falls, Idaho), Michael J. Young (Kimberly, Idaho), Brent L. Petersen (Twin Falls, Idaho) and Loren S. Ward (Twin Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for making protein emulsions for use in making products such as meat substitutes, meat extenders, egg substitutes, dairy analogues, etc., as well as methods for using the emulsion(s) to make various meat substitutes, egg substitutes, dairy analogues, etc. Also d...