ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,854, issued on July 14, was assigned to Solar Foods Oyj (Vantaa, Finland).

"Egg replacement food product and method of producing thereof comprising microbial protein biomass" was invented by Anna Hakamies (Lappeenranta, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of producing an egg replacement food product that includes mixing a protein microbial biomass powder with water to obtain a wet mixture, hydrating the wet mixture at room temperature, mixing the wet mixture at high speed, hydrating the mixed wet mixture at 6 C degrees, mixing the hydrated wet mixture with an oil at high speed and emulsifying the mixed wet mi...