US Patent Issued to Tate & Lyle Solutions USA on Sept. 8 for "Inhibited porous granular starches and methods of making and using them" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,247, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Tate & Lyle Solutions USA LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"Inhibited porous granular starches and methods of making and using them" was invented by Zheng You (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Weichang Liu (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Saravanan Suppiah Singaram (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Jarred Lawson (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to inhibited porous granular starches having desirably high porosity. One aspect thereof is a method for making an inhibited porous granular starch product, that includes hydrolyzing a granular starch feed to a degree of hydrolys...