ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,778, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOVASEP PROCESS SOLUTIONS (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost, France).

"Method for making fructose from glucose" was invented by Damien Brichant (Sarzeau, France) and Eric Valery (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a fructose composition comprising the following successive stages: provision of an initial composition comprising glucose; concentration of the initial composition by evaporation of water to obtain a concentrated initial composition; isomerization of glucose to fructose from the concentrated initial composition, making it possible to o...