ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,825, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands).
"Lactose reduced dairy powder" was invented by Petrus Jacobus Theodorus Dekker (Echt, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of dry or powder dairy compositions. The invention provides a method for producing a lactose reduced dairy powder comprising treating a lactose comprising milk-based substrate with a first enzyme having transgalactosylase activity and a second enzyme having lactase activity to obtain a lactose reduced and galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) comprising milk-based product; and preparing lac...