US Patent Issued to LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) on Jan. 13 for "Method of extraction of a galactomannan gum from alfalfa seeds" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,673, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

"Method of extraction of a galactomannan gum from alfalfa seeds" was invented by Thierry Hellebois (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) and Christos Soukoulis (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of extracting polysaccharides from alfalfa plants, the method comprising the followings steps: milling of the alfalfa plants; addition of a buffer solution to the milled alfalfa plants and separation of the milled plants, thus producing a polysaccharides-composed supernatant and a protein-co...