ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,214, issued on May 5, was assigned to Frito-Lay North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Vegetable containing snack product" was invented by Ajay Rajeshwar Bhaskar (Allen, Texas), Jorge C. Morales-Alvarez (Plano, Texas) and Naveen Chikthimmah (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vegetable snack product includes a base starch, corn flour, whole vegetable flour other than potato and corn, vegetable powder other than potato and corn. The vegetable snack product provides at least 15% of real vegetables exclusive of potato and corn and has a bulk density between about 60 g/L to about 84 g/L. An exemplary method of making a vegetable sn...