ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,687, issued on March 31, was assigned to FUMI INGREDIENTS B.V. (Wageningen, Netherlands).

"Microbial cell product, method for obtaining said microbial cell product and use of said microbial cell product" was invented by Edgar Suarez Garcia (Wageningen, Netherlands) and Corjan Vandenberg (Wageningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for preparing a microbial cell product, said method comprising: providing an aqueous suspension comprising microbial cells; subjecting said suspension to mechanical cell disintegration at a temperature in the range of 15-35deg C., preferably at a pH valu...