US Patent Issued to Conopco on Aug. 26 for "Oil-in-water emulsion containing first flour and second flour high in amylopectin" (Dutch, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,470, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Oil-in-water emulsion containing first flour and second flour high in amylopectin" was invented by Mia Claire Benjamin (Voorburg, Netherlands), Jadwiga Malgorzata Bialek (Bedford, Great Britain), Meliana Ko (3067 RN Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Robert Vreeker (Melissant, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion, containing a first flour and a second flour and/or a third starch, wherein the first flour comprises flour obtained from pulse seed, or comprises flour obtaine...