US Patent Issued to Roquette Freres on March 31 for "Highly soluble pea starch as replacer of maltodextrin" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,205, issued on March 31, was assigned to Roquette Freres (Lestrem, France).

"Highly soluble pea starch as replacer of maltodextrin" was invented by Chandani Perera (Batavia, Ill.), Liuming Zhou (Geneva, Ill.), Ken Jian (Naperville, Ill.) and Jovin Hasjim (Bethune, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is related to a high soluble leguminous starch having a content of oligosaccharides with a Degree of Polymerization (DP) of 1 and 2 of less than 10% in weight, more preferably less than 6%, a content of oligosaccharides with a DP of 3 to 20 of more than 50% in weight, more preferably more than 70%, a water solubility of m...