US Patent Issued to GHL Specialty Flours on June 30 for "Functionally enhanced flours, grits, and food products and methods of making and using same" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,848, issued on June 30, was assigned to GHL Specialty Flours LLC (Cedarburg, Wis.).

"Functionally enhanced flours, grits, and food products and methods of making and using same" was invented by John M. Lipscomb (Cedarburg, Wis.), Omar I. Rodriguez (Cedarburg, Wis.) and Chad C. Berge (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flour made using an admixture composed of starch-containing grain, seed or fruit of a cereal grain or grain legume of low water content extruded in a single screw extruder at an ultra-high extrusion pressure producing an extruded functionally enhanced flour usable as an instantized flour by only addi...