US Patent Issued to Nippon Suisan on Jan. 28 for "Docosahexaenoic acid-containing oil and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,227, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Docosahexaenoic acid-containing oil and method for producing same" was invented by Takayoshi Sekiguchi (Tokyo), Yuji Okita (Tokyo) and Yumiko Nishizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Docosahexaenoic acid-containing oil containing docosahexaenoic acid in a concentration of 40 wt. % or more of the total weight of fatty acids in the oil, and having an endothermic peak temperature determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of 15deg C. or lower; a biomass including the same; and a method for producing docosahexaenoic acid-containing oil including...