ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,148, issued on March 4, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).
"Method of making value egg products" was invented by Oscar Esquivel (Lakeland, Tenn.), Samuel Edward Kessler (Hopkins, Minn.) and Bria Abeles-Allison (Wayzata, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Formed, ready-to-cook or ready-to-eat egg products are prepared by mixing a liquid egg composition comprising liquid egg in an amount sufficient so that the liquid egg composition is flowable at 35deg F. with solid food inclusions, wherein at least 50% of the solid food inclusions have a longest dimension size of from 0.6 to 12 cm. At least about 50% of the solid food i...