Concentration of glycosaminoglycans and precursors thereto in food products
CA 2263864 C · Owner: Marino, Richard P. · Inventors: Marino, Richard P.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Accordingly, a method is provided for concentrating precursors to vertebrate connective tissue in foodstuffs to be ingested by humans and pets as part of their daily sustenance. The present method comprises the following steps: (a) providing raw vertebrate connective tissue; (b) disintegrating the raw vertebrate connective tissue into an aggregation of particles having a substantially homogenous particle size preferably via an emulsification process thereby forming liquefied connective tissue; and (c) thermally processing the liquefied connective tissue resulting in a readily-edible foodstuff rich in chondroitin sulfates glucosamine, and other connective tissue building blocks. Also …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 2, 1999 and granted August 5, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 2, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 2, 2021.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.