US Patent Issued to Land O'Lakes on March 17 for "Product and method of producing dairy products comprising dairy-derived emulsifying salts" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,582, issued on March 17, was assigned to Land O'Lakes Inc. (Arden Hills, Minn.).

"Product and method of producing dairy products comprising dairy-derived emulsifying salts" was invented by Thomas Alexander Glenn III (Shoreview, Minn.) and Richard Dinesen (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dairy products are produced by subjecting a starting dairy material to nanofiltration to remove monovalent ions to produce an ion-depleted dairy permeate; passing the ion-depleted dairy permeate through an ion exchange column and subsequently with a sodium-containing eluting solution to produce sodium phosphate and sodium citrate deriv...