US Patent Issued to Youn Young Shim on Sept. 29 for "Method for preparing legumes powder using aquafaba" (South Korean, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,788, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Youn Young Shim (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for preparing legumes powder using aquafaba" was invented by Youn Young Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Martin J. T. Reaney (Seoul, South Korea), Yue He (Saskatoon, Canada) and Young Jun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for preparing legumes powder called aquafaba through a step of pre-soaking selected legumes or without the pre-soaking step, to produce vegetable proteins that can replace animal proteins. The method for preparing legumes powder includes selecting legumes; washing the selected legumes wi...