US Patent Issued to Corn Products Development on Dec. 23 for "Method of preparing thermally inhibited grain" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,904, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Corn Products Development Inc. (Westchester, Ill.).

"Method of preparing thermally inhibited grain" was invented by Hongxin Jiang (Bridgewater, N.J.), Christopher Lane (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Tarak Shah (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of thermally inhibiting starch or flour is provided. The method involves thermally or non-thermally dehydrating a grain to anhydrous or substantially anhydrous, and then heat treating this dehydrated grain. The heat treated dehydrated grain is then milled, producing thermally inhibited flour and/or starch. Using this method, the shelf li...