US Patent Issued to NISSUI on June 17 for "Highly unsaturated fatty acid or highly unsaturated fatty acid ethyl ester with reduced environmental pollutants, and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,015, issued on June 17, was assigned to NISSUI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Highly unsaturated fatty acid or highly unsaturated fatty acid ethyl ester with reduced environmental pollutants, and method for producing same" was invented by Nobushige Doisaki (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Hata (Ibaraki, Japan), Shinji Tokiwa (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kazunori Matsushima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly unsaturated fatty acid or a highly unsaturated fatty acid ethyl ester that has been produced using as a feedstock oil a fat or oil that contains highly unsaturated fatty acids as constituent fatty acids and which has been reduced in the contents of environ...