ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,521, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amano Enzyme Inc. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Method for producing fat/oil" was invented by Tatsuya Shinoda (Kakamigahara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing an effective new means for efficiently reducing the amount of diacylglycerol in a fat/oil (by conversion into triacylglycerol). Disclosed is a method for producing a fat/oil, including a step in which a lipase having a ratio of transesterification activity to hydrolysis activity of 0.007 or higher is caused to act on a diacylglycerol-containing fat/oil."
The patent was filed on March 10, 20...