ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,350, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PHYTOBIOTICS Futterzusatzstoffe GmbH (Eltville, Germany).

"Preparation of a lysinate compound from an aqueous lysine solution" was invented by Hermann Roth (Eltville, Germany), Yvonne Link (Destrich-Winkel, Germany) and Juliane Dohms (Eltville, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for preparing a monolysinate compound (200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900). The process comprises providing (502) a liquid reaction mixture (810), in which lysine (802) and a metal salt (404) are dissolved; reacting the lysine dissolved in the reaction mixture and the metal sal...