US Patent Issued to Roquette Freres on Nov. 3 for "Low sodium protein isolate" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,159, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Roquette Freres (Lestrem, France).

"Low sodium protein isolate" was invented by Lucile Calmon (Lille, France), Christophe Laroche (Fougeres, France), Chandani Perera (Batavia, Ill.) and Carlos Kantt (North Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a plant protein, including isolates and concentrates, preferably leguminous protein isolates, more preferably pea protein isolates characterized in that it contains less than 0.6% by dry weight of sodium on dry matter and below 1% by dry weight of calcium. The invention further relates to processes of extraction and p...