ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,833, issued on June 23, was assigned to EURODIA INDUSTRIE (Pertuis, France).

"Process for demineralising a milk protein composition, milk protein composition obtainable by said process, and facility for implementing said process" was invented by Anne Gonin (Pertuis, France) and Florence Lutin (Pertuis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing a demineralised milk protein composition (MPC2), comprising (i) providing a milk protein composition (MPC); (ii) electrodialysis of the milk protein composition (MPC) on an electrodialyser (5, 200), comprising unit cells (15, 215) comprising three compartments (20, 26, 3...