ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,906, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Quzhou, China).

"System and method for reducing content of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in high fructose corn syrup" was invented by Shengrong Chen (Zhejiang, China), Jun Zhuge (Zhejiang, China), Yuqing Cheng (Zhejiang, China), Xinfeng Han (Zhejiang, China) and Jiaxing Luo (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system for reducing a content of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in a high fructose syrup, including an ion exchange positive column and an ion exchange negative column for performing cation and anion removals in sequ...