US Patent Issued to LUHUA BIOMARINE (SHANDONG) on Nov. 11 for "Method for extracting high-quality krill oil from krill" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,013, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LUHUA BIOMARINE (SHANDONG) Co. LTD. (Jinan, China).

"Method for extracting high-quality krill oil from krill" was invented by Ningning Fan (Jinan, China), Xuhai Gong (Jinan, China) and Jun Zong (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting high-quality krill oil from krill includes the following steps: S1. performing extraction on krill with an organic solvent, and collecting an extracting solution; S2. adding alkaline water to the extracting solution to enable a free fatty acid to form a fatty acid salt to be separated from an oil phase, and performing oil-water phase se...