US Patent Issued to CRUZ FOAM on March 17 for "Pellet manufacturing for foam and products" (California, North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,571, issued on March 17, was assigned to CRUZ FOAM INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Pellet manufacturing for foam and products" was invented by William Thomas Lewczyk (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Juan Manuel Bravo (Fairlawn, Ohio), Maanas Maheshwari (Greensboro, N.C.), Nicholas Cesario (Santa Cruz, Calif.), John Selberg (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Brandon Miller (Truckee, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described. The method comprising inputting starch into an extruder, inputting a plasticizer into the extruder, outputting an extrudate from the extruder, and chopping the extrudate output from the extruder into pellets. The extrud...