ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,766, issued on March 25, was assigned to HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO (Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland).
"Method to produce oleogels" was invented by Fabio Valoppi (Helsinki), Ari Salmi (Helsinki) and Edward Haeggstrom (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for producing oleogels by sonicating a mixture including an oleogelator component and an oil component with ultrasound including superpositioned ultrasound waves while cooling the mixture from a temperature wherein the mixture is in molten state to a temperature wherein the oleogelator component of the mixture is at least partially in solid state. The method produces ...