ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,150, issued on March 24, was assigned to POET Research Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Endogenous lipase for metal reduction in distillers corn oil" was invented by Andrew J. Manning (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Alex T. McCurdy (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Steven T. Bly (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions, methods, systems associated with propagation and fermentation, and co-products of biochemical production processes, for example, a DCO co-product resulting from converting oil containing grains into bio chemicals via fermentation in the presence of endogenous esterase. The DCO resulting from the proces...