US Patent Issued to DSM Nutritional Products on June 2 for "Enzymatic modification of oil" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,141, issued on June 2, was assigned to DSM Nutritional Products AG (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland).

"Enzymatic modification of oil" was invented by Jaroslav A. Kralovec (Halifax, Canada), Weijie Wang (Dartmouth, Canada) and James Colin Barrow (Halifax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed subject matter relates generally to a method for modifying oil, and specifically to a process for increasing the concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acid in an oil composition. The process comprises a) hydrolysis of the glyceride by Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase, b) separation of the free saturated fatty acids from the glycerides and c)...