ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,449, issued on July 29, was assigned to KEMIN INDUSTRIES INC. (Des Moines, Iowa).
"Method for the preparation of lysophosphatidylinositol" was invented by Zheng Li (Zhuhai, China), Songying Li (Zhuhai, China) and Shengshu Huang (Zhuhai, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a high-LPI lysolecithin and methods related to the same. The high-LPI product is produced through the reaction of lecithin with a unique method using solvent, buffer/water, and phospholipase. Using the current production method, LPI content increased from 1.4% to 3.2-13.1% using regular soy lecithin as the starting material and LPC,...