ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,914, issued on April 21, was assigned to N.V. Nutricia (Zoetermeer, Netherlands).
"Demineralised lactose concentrate" was invented by Cameron Marshall (Utrecht, Netherlands), Tuan Nguyen (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Ana Ospina Martinez (Utrecht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process of producing a lactose concentrate, said process comprising the step of subjecting a partially demineralised aqueous lactose isolate to electrodialysis to produce a biotin-reduced lactose isolate containing at least 90% lactose by weight of dry matter and less than 2 mg ash per gram of lactose, and containing: ...