ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,150, issued on April 14, was assigned to Amano Enzyme Inc. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Highly emulsifiable albumen hydrolysate" was invented by Hajime Hatta (Uji, Japan), Mayuko Takagi (Shiroi, Japan), Sakiko Sho (Kyoto, Japan), Saki Nagata (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shuntaro Ise (Tokyo), Yasumi Horimoto (Guelph, Canada) and Yu Wang (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing an albumen hydrolysate that has emulsifiability, emulsion stability and heat coagulability. An albumen hydrolysate obtained by hydrolysis of albumen with a protease, wherein the dry weight of a precipitate formed by a...