US Patent Issued to Cargill on May 26 for "Method of preparing a cooked chunk pet food product" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,712, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Method of preparing a cooked chunk pet food product" was invented by Staci Lynn Degeer (Wichita, Kan.) and Morgan Nicole Gonzalez (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooked chunk pet food product is prepared by grinding animal muscle meat and animal organ meat and mixing the animal muscle meat and the animal organ meat in a ratio of muscle meat to organ meat of from about 1:1 to about 10:1 wt % in a mixer for from about 5 to 20 minutes to form a mixed meat component, mixing with additional ingredients to prepare a pet food base formulation that is dispo...