US Patent Issued to NutriLeads on Sept. 16 for "Method of producing a pectic polysaccharide isolate enriched in rhamnogalacturonan-I" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,871, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NutriLeads B.V. (Wageningen, Netherlands).

"Method of producing a pectic polysaccharide isolate enriched in rhamnogalacturonan-I" was invented by Ruud Albers (Rockanje, Netherlands) and Maria Tzoumaki (Wageningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of producing a hydrolysed pectic polysaccharide isolate that is enriched in rhamnogalacturonan-I, said method comprising the steps of: providing a pectin-rich substrate that has been obtained from plant material without the use of organic solvent, said pectin-rich substrate containing at least 3% by weight of...