US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on Oct. 6 for "Method for preparing natural nitrite" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,422, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for preparing natural nitrite" was invented by Jin Hee Han (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Hoon Jo (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyo Jung Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a method of producing natural nitrite, the method including preparing an extract from a plant containing nitrate, activating nitrate reductase within the plant extract, and inactivating the nitrate reductase. According to the method of producing the natural nitrite, nitrite may be produced in a high concentration from natural raw m...