ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,204, issued on March 3.
"System and method for steam flaking of grains" was invented by Michael L. Ray (Guymon, Okla.) and Jonathon L. Beckett (Oceanside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for processing a cereal grain including establishing a correlation between outgassing levels of one or more volatile compounds from the cereal grain as it is processed by exposure to steam cooking and rolling into a processed grain, and a starch availability in the processed grain, and altering the process to produce a desired starch availability by altering the flaking process to product the correlated outgassing levels of ...