US Patent Issued to Louis Dreyfus Company Plant Proteins on Sept. 23 for "Compositions and methods of using a novel animal feed" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,329, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Louis Dreyfus Co. Plant Proteins LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods of using a novel animal feed" was invented by Manoj Kumar (Livermore, Calif.) and Prasanth Kumar Sasidharan Pillai (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an animal feed additive comprising pea solubles, in particular pea solubles added to canola meal. The present invention further provides methods of reducing the percentage of methane in the gas produced in an animal, in particular a ruminant animal. In addition, methods are provided for improving crude protein and dry...