US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, BARILLA G. & R. FRATELLI on July 8 for "Flour-based shape-changing food and related methods" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,714, issued on July 8, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh) and BARILLA G. & R. FRATELLI S.p.A. (Parma, Italy).

"Flour-based shape-changing food and related methods" was invented by Lining Yao (Pittsburgh), Humphrey Yang (Pittsburgh), Youngwook Do (Pittsburgh), Catherine Mondoa (Pittsburgh), Guanyun Wang (Pittsburgh), Jianxun Cui (Pittsburgh), Wen Wang (Pittsburgh), Yi-Chin Lee (Pittsburgh), Ye Tao (Pittsburgh), Claudia Berti (Parma, Italy), Elena Berte (Parma, Italy) and Elena Bergamini (Brescello, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for creating semolina flour-based shape-changing food from a multi-layere...