US Patent Issued to Steuben Foods on Oct. 28 for "Process for increasing yield in production of plant based products" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,361, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Steuben Foods Inc. (Elma, N.Y.).

"Process for increasing yield in production of plant based products" was invented by Donkeun Park (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for using bacterial or fungal metalloprotease and trypsin to solve problems associated with conventional protease extraction techniques by dramatically reducing temperature, incubation time and proteolysis during protease extraction. The present disclosure relates to a protease treatment for increasing yield from plant or other material by extracting nutrients from the fibrous waste portion of milled plant mater...