ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,368, issued on May 27, was assigned to SOLVAY SA (Brussels).
"Method for the prophylactic treatment of a food product" was invented by Olivier Patat (Paris), Jean-Philippe Pascal (Villers-les-Nancy, France) and Mathieu Belmond (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for the prophylactic treatment of the development of parasites in a food product with a powder comprising more than 40% by weight of an alkali metal bicarbonate, wherein the powder is in the form of particles having a medium particle size of at most 300 micro metre, and said treatment comprising mixing the powder with the food product, characterized in that at most 1...