ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,874, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Jinan University (Guangzhou, China).

"Method for extracting and separating various components from flaxseed meal based on subcritical composite solvent" was invented by Ying Li (Guangzhou, China), Ning Zhang (Guangzhou, China) and Yong Wang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for extracting and separating various components from flaxseed meal based on a subcritical composite solvent, including the following steps: adding an extraction agent to flaxseed meal for subcritical extraction to obtain a crude flax lignan extract and crude fla...