US Patent Issued to Roquette Freres on Nov. 18 for "Method for fractionating soluble fractions of peas, fraction thus obtained and upgrade thereof" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,330, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Roquette Freres (Lestrem, France).

"Method for fractionating soluble fractions of peas, fraction thus obtained and upgrade thereof" was invented by Manuel Barata (Gonnehem, France), Pierrick Duflot (La Couture, France), Claire Dhalleine (Compiegne, France) and Jean-Marc Verrin (Beuvry, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for fractionating soluble fractions of peas, including, in sequence, a step of microfiltering or centrifuging, followed by a step of ultrafiltering, and optionally a reverse-osmosis step. A reduction of the leakage of proteins toward the solu...