ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,080, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).
"Fatty acid esterification process" was invented by Per Munk Nielsen (Hilleroed, Denmark), Anders Rancke-Madsen (Charlottenlund, Denmark) and Rasmus Boeg Hansen (Frederiksberg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for enzymatic esterification of free fatty acids. In particular the invention relates to this process using a flash operation for water removal from enzyme reaction mixture."
The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/769,020.
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