ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,601, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SPX Flow Technology Danmark A/S (Soborg, Denmark).

"Systems and method for removing the yellow color of riboflavin from lactose solutions" was invented by Peter Wagner (Soborg, Denmark) and Martin Landerslev (Soborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for removing a yellow color of riboflavin in a lactose solution. The methods include exposing a lactose solution (e.g. milk) containing riboflavin to light under conditions that breakdown riboflavin comprised within the solution to thereby remove the yellow color of riboflavin. The conditions that ...