US Patent Issued to Cargill on June 23 for "Corn protein hydrolysates and methods of making" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,838, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Corn protein hydrolysates and methods of making" was invented by Chathurada Sugeeshvarie Gajadeera (Maple Grove, Minn.), Baraem Pamela Ismail (Shoreview, Minn.), Michael A. Mortenson (Rogers, Minn.) and Michael A. Porter (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition and method of preparing a corn protein hydrolysate includes obtaining a corn protein composition having a corn protein concentration of at least about 75 wt %, adding an enzyme to a corn protein suspension containing the corn protein composition at a ratio of from about 1:100 to abo...