ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,923, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nooter/Eriksen Inc. (Fenton, Mo.).

"Processes for producing low chlorophyll, high polar lipid compositions from algal oils and extracts" was invented by Brian L. Goodall (Bretby, Great Britain), Dmitry Kuklev (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Glen L. Bostick (Columbia, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing highly bioavailable oil compositions from biomasses and, in particular, autotrophic algal biomasses, and providing characterized and clarified mass balance breakdowns and component products therefrom without loss of significant mass in an extraction such as a liquid-liquid extraction,...