ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,913, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Eat JUST Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Functional mung bean-derived compositions" was invented by Ritu Bansal-Mutalik (Albany, Calif.), Siddharth Bhide (San Francisco), Brenna Gibson (San Francisco), Camilla Hall (San Jose, Calif.), Malgorzata Jakubasch (Laguna Nigel, Calif.), Jake Kleiner (Mill Valley, Calif.), Viviane Lanquar (Redwood City, Calif.), Swetha Mahadevan (Oakland, Calif.), Trevor Niekowal (Oakland, Calif.), Jade Proulx (Redwood City, Calif.), Ben Roche (San Francisco), Meng Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), James Flatt (San Francisco) and Nathaniel Park (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Offic...