US Patent Issued to DAIRY PROTEIN COOPERATION FOOD on June 30 for "Method of removing spores from raw goat milk, process for preparing purified goat milk, goat milk accordingly produced and its use and cheese making method" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,113, issued on June 30, was assigned to DAIRY PROTEIN COOPERATION FOOD B.V. (Bodegraven, Netherlands).

"Method of removing spores from raw goat milk, process for preparing purified goat milk, goat milk accordingly produced and its use and cheese making method" was invented by Bas Willem Maarten Lavrijsen (Bodegraven, Netherlands) and Frederic Benjamins (Bodegraven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is method of removing spores from raw goat milk. Thereby raw goat milk is subjected to decreaming in a separator. Goat cream is thereupon subjected to mild heat treatment. Goat skim milk may be subjected to microfiltrati...