ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,599, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ICM Inc. (Colwich, Kan.).
"Single cell protein process and product" was invented by Charles C. Gallop (Gower, Mo.), Christopher Riley William Gerken (Helena, Mo.), Jeremy Edward Javers (St. Joseph, Mo.), Jesse Spooner (Easton, Mo.) and Ryan A. Mass (Pratt, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods to separate solids from liquids in a production facility. A process separates components in the process stream by applying non-condensable media to create density differences and then using a mechanical device to separate the solids from the liquids based on the density diffe...