ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,317, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Wageningen Universiteit (Wageningen, Netherlands).

"Cell for making an anisotropic-structured product from a starting material when being subjected to a shear force and heated and a method" was invented by Aloysius Christianus Maria Van Steijn (Oostzaan, Netherlands), Willem Cornelis Steenbergen (Oostzaan, Netherlands) and Atze Jan Van Der Goot (Ede, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell (100) for making an anisotropic-structured product from a protein starting material, the cell (100) comprising an inner member (110) and an outer member (120) arranged concentrically along a longitudi...