US Patent Issued to Texas Tech University System on March 24 for "Method for the rapid osmotic drying of food" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,131, issued on March 24, was assigned to Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas).

"Method for the rapid osmotic drying of food" was invented by Richard Schlomer Meyer (Harrison, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a method and food product made by at least partially enclosing a food product with a water-permeable membrane; and contacting a brine or sugar solution with a water activity sufficiently high to draw water molecules across the water-permeable membrane and away from the food product to preserve the food."

The patent was filed on Oct. 27, 2021, under Application No. 18/250,004.

*For fu...