ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,713, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TESSENDERLO GROUP NV (Brussels).

"Method for producing hydrolysed keratinaceous material" was invented by Romain Fillieres (Vernon, France), Marc Belmans (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Frank Boers (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Faye Maertens (Schaffen, Belgium) and Joeri Rogiers (Zolder, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of the invention comprises the production of highly digestible hydrolysed keratinaceous material comprising the steps of (i) partly hydrolysing keratinaceous material with heat and pressure and (ii) optionally drying the resultant partly hydrolysed material comprising at leas...