Burcon NutraScience Corporation announced that it has expanded its intellectual property portfolio through the filing of five additional US patent applications covering technologies for the production of sunflower seed protein and pulse proteins.
The company said the patent filings also cover the unique protein ingredients produced from those technologies.
“The US patent applications Burcon has just filed build upon the groundwork of our significant existing intellectual property portfolio, including our first sunflower protein patent application filed almost five years ago,” Burcon NutraScience CEO Johann Tergesen said in a statement.
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"With our pea and canola proteins now being produced and sold, we are turning our focus to the potential economic opportunity presented by high-value proteins from sunflower and other agricultural sources for future commercialization,” Tergesen added.
Burcon noted it intends to continue to grow its core protein technology platform to further refine its existing protein extraction technologies, as well as to make new innovative discoveries while continuing to seek patent protection for these inventions as they arise.
Sunflower seed proteins produced using Burcon's extraction technology exhibit unique and potentially valuable functional characteristics as well as a nutritional profile similar to that of canola protein, the company stated.
Burcon NutraScience is a global technology leader in the development of plant-based proteins for foods and beverages.
With over two decades of experience formulating high-purity proteins that have superior functionality, taste and nutrition, the company has amassed an extensive patent portfolio covering its novel plant-based proteins derived from pea, canola, soy, hemp, sunflower seed, among other plant sources.
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