ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,995, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to COOPERATIE KONINKLIJKE AVEBE U.A. (Veendam, Netherlands).
"Diafiltration" was invented by David Ignacio Habeych Narvaez (Groningen, Netherlands), Libbe Foekes Tjalma (Marwijksoord, Netherlands), Robin Eric Jacobus Spelbrink (Scharmer, Netherlands) and Marc Christiaan Laus (Haren, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method to isolate native tuber protein using a pretreatment of tuber processing water and diafiltration against a salt solution. This sequence of steps has the advantage that protein is stabilized during diafiltration, increasing process effici...