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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David F Driscoll, West Bridgewater, MA (US);
Bruce R Bistrian, Ipswich, MA (US);
Assignee:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ; B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210650 ; 210651 ;
Abstract
A method for reducing the number lipid droplets having a diameter exceeding a preselected threshold in a nutritional emulsion has been developed. The method has the steps of passing the nutritional emulsion, under pressure, through a filter having a pore size smaller than the threshold. A filter having a mean pore size of about 1.2 .mu.m with a standard deviation of about 0.5 is sufficient to exclude lipid droplets having a diameter in excess of five .mu.m.