US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Sept. 23 for "Meat structured protein products and method for the manufacture thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,326, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Boston).

"Meat structured protein products and method for the manufacture thereof" was invented by David Julian McClements (Northampton, Mass.), Zhiyun Zhang (Amherst, Mass.), Kanon Kobata (Amherst, Mass.) and Hung Pham (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a meat structured protein product includes combining a denatured plant protein and a polysaccharide in the presence of an aqueous solvent to provide a phase-separated mixture including a dispersed phase rich in polysaccharide and a continuous phase rich in the denatured plant protein...