US Patent Issued to Process Partners on Nov. 3 for "Cereal manufacturing process and system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,165, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Process Partners Inc. (Hudsonville, Mich.).

"Cereal manufacturing process and system" was invented by James C. Breslin (Zeeland, Mich.) and Alicia Perdon (Northport, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of preparing a finished food product from grains includes the steps of a first step of heating the grains to pre-gelatinize the grain starch, in the absence of added water, adding flavor to the pre-heated grains to form a pre-heated grain and flavor mixture, and a second step of heating the grain and flavor mixture to fully gelatinize the grain starch and allow flavor and color developme...