ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,839, issued on June 23, was assigned to DR. SCHAR S.P.A. (Burgstall, Italy).

"Method to prepare a mixture and food products deriving therefrom" was invented by Virna Lucia Cerne (Duino-Aurisina, Italy) and Ombretta Polenghi (Trieste, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to prepare a mixture to make cereal-based food products which natively contain gluten includes a step of mixing cereal flour and a step of preparing a mixture obtained by mixing a hydrolyzed flour composition with a transglutaminase enzyme and with a source of lysine."

The patent was filed on June 8, 2021, under Application No. 18/009,709.

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