US Patent Issued to United Arab Emirates University on Dec. 16 for "Edible film for food preservation" (Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,808, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to United Arab Emirates University (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Edible film for food preservation" was invented by Zienab F R Ahmed (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Navjot Kaur (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Abdel-Hamid Ismail Mourad (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an edible film for food preservation, the edible film comprising at least 90 wt % of a first component. The first component comprises chitosan and aloe vera extract. Named parts comprised in the first component make up 100 wt % of the first component. The present discl...