US Patent Issued to Louis Dreyfus Company Plant Proteins on Sept. 1 for "Pea protein isolate composition and process for production thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,363, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Louis Dreyfus Co. Plant Proteins LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Pea protein isolate composition and process for production thereof" was invented by Manoj Kumar (Livermore, Calif.) and Prasanth Kumar Sasidharan Pillai (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides processes for producing reduced sodium pea protein isolate (PPI), reduced sodium PPI produced by the processes and use of reduced sodium PPI. The processes for producing reduced sodium PPI comprise precipitating protein from a pea protein solution to produce a PPI and neutralizing the PPI with NaOH and Mg(...