US Patent Issued to BENEO-ORAFTI on Jan. 27 for "Method for obtaining an inulin-containing composition" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,543, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BENEO-ORAFTI SA (Oreye, Belgium).

"Method for obtaining an inulin-containing composition" was invented by Benjamin Limpens (Namur, Belgium), Linda Mertens (Schaarbeek, Belgium) and Jan Van Loo (Huldenberg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining an inulin-containing composition includes providing an inulin-containing plant material, such as Cichorium intybus roots, and providing the inulin-containing plant material in particulate form, wherein the particles have a particle size distribution such that at most 45 vol % of the particles has a sizeless than equal to0.15 mm, an...