US Patent Issued to SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE on March 31 for "Process for an instant oil fried noodle" (Swiss, Indian, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,694, issued on March 31, was assigned to SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Process for an instant oil fried noodle" was invented by Preksha Bapna (Gurgaon, India), Michel Dreyer (New Delhi), Michele Marazzato (Oberdiessbach, Switzerland), Joan Federico (Kharkov, Ukraine) and Constantin Bertoli (Konolfingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the production of an instant oil fried noodle. The oil used for frying the instant noodle comprises the fatty acids C16:0 in the range of 1 to 25 wt % (based on weight of total fat) and C18:1 in the range of 60 to 90 wt...