ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,227, issued on April 8, was assigned to SYMRISE AG (Holzminden, Germany).
"Production of flavor concentrates by osmosis" was invented by Johannes Kiefl (Holzminden, Germany), Claudia Utermohle (Uslar, Germany) and Stefan Brennecke (Halle, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for preparing of a food concentrate in which an aqueous starting solution from a foodstuff is concentrated by osmosis with a semi-permeable biomimetic membrane. In addition, the present invention relates to a food concentrate which can be produced by the process according to the invention, a food concentrate which is f...