ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,364, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AMERICAN BIOPROCESS SPA (Quilpue, Chile).
"Recovery method for neutral and lipid components contained in Tall Oil Soap (TOS) or its saponified derivatives: lipid components such as fatty acids (FA), rosinic acids (RA), neutral components or neutral material (NM) including phytosterols" was invented by Miguel Angel Fuenzalida Diaz (Santiago, Chile), Rodrigo Alejandro Mancilla Villalobos (Valparaiso, Chile) and Raul Ignacio Aravena Contreras (Santiago, Chile).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of separation and recovery of neutral and lipid components contained in saponifiable mixtures such as ...