ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,405, issued on May 13, was assigned to Green Lizard Technologies Ltd. (Belfast, Great Britain).

"Chloropropanol removal process" was invented by Peter Goodrich (Belfast, Great Britain), Eoghain O'Hara (Belfast, Great Britain) and Martin Atkins (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to processes for the refining of oils. In particular, the invention relates to processes for the refining of oils of biological origin such as vegetable oils."

The patent was filed on Oct. 29, 2019, under Application No. 17/289,823.

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