US Patent Issued to AAK on Oct. 27 for "Process for making a vegetable fat composition with an increased amount of sn2 positioned palmitic acid" (Swedish, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,429, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AAK AB (PUBL) (Malmo, Sweden).

"Process for making a vegetable fat composition with an increased amount of sn2 positioned palmitic acid" was invented by Martin C. Johansson (Morrum, Sweden) and Martinus M.M. Vissers (el Bussum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the production of a triglyceride with Palmitic acid (P) in the middle position (XPX). A first transesterification process is used to produce a vegetable fat composition rich in palmitic acid and said intermediate composition is then further processed to produce triglycerides having a high proportion of i...