ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,128, issued on June 30, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich), Instituto de Tecnologia de Alimentos (ITAL) (Chacaras Campos dos Amarais, Brazil) and INSTITUTO AGRONOMICO CAMPINAS JAC (Campinas, Brazil).

"Dietary fiber preparation from macauba fruit, and method of producing same" was invented by Sergio Henrique Toledo E Silva (Chacaras Campos dos Amarais, Brazil), Gabriele Doer (Freising, Germany), Peter Eisner (Freising, Germany), Stefanie Mittermaier (Freising, Germany), Isabel Muranyi (Freising, Germany), Roseli Aparecida Ferrari (Chacaras Campos dos Amarais, Brazil), Alexandre Martins Moreira (Chacaras Campos dos Amarais, ...