US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO, AMANO ENZYME on March 31 for "Method for producing modified pea protein" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,686, issued on March 31, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo) and AMANO ENZYME INC. (Aichi, Japan).

"Method for producing modified pea protein" was invented by Hiroshi Takayanagi (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakagoshi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Rikiya Ishida (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods including performing (I) a step of adding an acid to a water dispersion of a pea ground product and collecting the precipitate, and (II) a step of conducting an enzyme reaction by adding protein deamidase, in this order or reverse order, are useful for improving the solubility of a modified pea protein."

The patent was fil...