US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on May 26 for "Process to prepare a liquid coffee concentrate with reduced acrylamide content by resin treatment" (Dutch, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,706, issued on May 26, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Process to prepare a liquid coffee concentrate with reduced acrylamide content by resin treatment" was invented by Gertjan Heijman (Utrecht, Netherlands), Rebecca Van Der Westen Skogvold (Utrecht, Netherlands), Ian Brown (Banbury, Great Britain) and Ellen Roos (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a liquid coffee concentrate that has a reduced acrylamide content. The process involves contacting a low aromatic aqueous coffee extract with a carbon and/or silica based resin with adsorptive function to redu...