ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,537, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nissui Corp. (Tokyo).

"Composition containing highly unsaturated fatty acid or alkyl ester thereof and a method for producing the same" was invented by Nobushige Doisaki (Tsukuba, Japan), Kiyomi Furihata (Hachioji, Japan) and Hideaki Yamaguchi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "PROBLEM To provide a composition comprising highly enriched PUFA or its alkyl esters while containing fatty acid esters of 3-MCPD at adequately low concentrations and to provide an efficient method for producing the composition.MEANS FOR SOLVING A composition that contains fatty acids or fatty acid alkyl e...