US Patent Issued to POLARIS on Feb. 17 for "Method of fractionation of fatty acids with a difference of two carbons by molecular distillation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,068, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to POLARIS (Quimper, France).

"Method of fractionation of fatty acids with a difference of two carbons by molecular distillation" was invented by Gildas Breton (Quimper, France), Lionel Larvol (Quimper, France) and Louis-Marie Martin (Quimper, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the fractionation of fatty acids with a difference of two carbons by molecular distillation with double pass fractionation between eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids, and compositions of microorganism oils enriched in eicosapentaenoic or docosahexaenoic acid. The method wherein (i) a reaction step be...