ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,421, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods for recovering organic acids or salts or lactones thereof from aqueous solutions using water solvent crystallization and compositions thereof" was invented by Juho Jarvinen (Kantvik, Finland), Hannu Koivikko (Kantvik, Finland), Jyrki Kuusisto (Vantaa, Finland), Tero Tuomas Mentunen (Kantvik, Finland), Juha Nurmi (Kantvik, Finland), Pertti Matias Sarela (Kantvik, Finland), Jani Siitonen (Kantvik, Finland) and Gregory M. Whited (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for producing crystalline forms of or...