ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,741, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NOTPLA Ltd. (London).

"Extrusion methods for manufacturing seaweed-based films and pellets" was invented by Pierre-Yves Paslier (London), Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez (London), Callum Wardle (London), Andre Gaduan (London), Erinc Bahcegul (London), Oceane Gaudinet (London), Daniel Pitt (London) and Louise Anderson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a pellet or film, wherein the pellet or film comprises at least 30 wt % seaweed material, wherein the seaweed material comprises seaweed material derived from macro algae, and wherein the at...