US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on March 17 for "Chia seed derived products and the process thereof" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,589, issued on March 17, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Chia seed derived products and the process thereof" was invented by Andrea M. Liceaga (Lafayette, Ind.), Jose Eleazar Aguilar Toala (Texcoco, Mexico) and Uriel Urbizo-Reyes (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates generally to a process of manufacturing a plurality of products from chia seeds. The process comprises socking chia seeds in a large volume of water for a period of time followed by sonication at an elevated temperature to remove the soluble fiber, the mucilage of chia seeds using vacuum filtration. Th...