ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,145, issued on July 15, was assigned to NESTE OYJ (Espoo, Finland).
"Method for treating lipid materials" was invented by Petri Lindqvist (Espoo, Finland), Jarmo Halttunen (Espoo, Finland), Olli Visuri (Espoo, Finland), Vaino Sippola (Espoo, Finland), Antti Pasanen (Espoo, Finland), Sami Toppinen (Espoo, Finland) and Jukka-Pekka Pasanen (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a lipid material containing phosphorous and/or metal compounds is described. The method includes providing the lipid material, preheating the lipid material, to obtain a preheated lipid material, heat treating the preheated lipid mat...