ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,142, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to IOI OLEO GMBH (Deutschland, Germany).

"Polyglycerol fatty acid ester-containing composition" was invented by Dirk Lochmann (Frondenberg, Germany), Sebastian Reyer (Essen, Germany), Sharareh Salar Behzadi (Vienna) and Michael Stehr (Gelsenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a polyglycerol fatty acid ester-containing composition which has the following three components, namely: first, polyglycerol fatty acid esters that can be obtained by esterifying polyglycerols, which have 2 to IO glycerol units, with fatty acids with 12 to 22 carbon atoms; second, free pol...