ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,691, issued on March 31, was assigned to International N&H Denmark APS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Diet formulations" was invented by Leon Marchal (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Yueming Dersjant Li (Oegstgeest, Netherlands) and Abiodun Bello (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are poultry diets containing phytase polypeptides or fragments thereof wherein the diet contains no or substantially no inorganic phosphate."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/784,597.

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