US Patent Issued to Lee Tech on July 21 for "System and method for improving the corn wet mill and dry mill process" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,011, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lee Tech LLC (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"System and method for improving the corn wet mill and dry mill process" was invented by Chie Ying Lee (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This novel corn milling process includes a continuous steeping step, early separation of easy-to-access starch (e.g., starch in the floury endosperm part of a corn kernel), fine milling to secure germ protein without the use of solvents or heat, and performing a phase separation to collect the product of fermentation. The continuous steeping process uses a continuous steeping tank. The steeping liquid, which in...