US Patent Issued to FONTERRA CO-OPERATIVE GROUP on Dec. 16 for "Dairy product and process" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,811, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FONTERRA CO-OPERATIVE GROUP Ltd. (Auckland City, New Zealand).

"Dairy product and process" was invented by Alice Matgorzata Smialowska (Auckland City, New Zealand), Jonathan Alfred Depree (Auckland City, New Zealand) and Mark Pritchard (Auckland City, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The description relates to food products comprising heat-treated liquid milk protein concentrates, and methods of producing and using these milk protein concentrates and food products. In particular, methods for preparing protein-containing food products are described, comprising providing a heat-treated,...