ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,975, issued on Aug. 12.
"Method of preparing a first break wheat which maintains wheat germ intact and surrounded in a protected state by endosperm" was invented by Alfonso Maldonado-Perez (Panama City, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing first break wheat which maintains wheat germ and wheat germ oil intact and surrounded in a protected state by endosperm includes milling wheat grains via a single pass through corrugated first break rollers thereby forming an amount of first break wheat, wherein the corrugated first break rollers are specifically designed to maintain wheat germ and wheat germ oil in the first b...