ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,294, issued on April 1, was assigned to Fluid Quip Technologies LLC (Springfield, Ohio).

"Methods for producing a high protein corn meal from a whole stillage byproduct and system therefore" was invented by Chie Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to corn dry-milling, and more specifically, to methods for producing a high protein corn meal from a whole stillage byproduct produced in a corn dry-milling process for making ethanol and a system therefore. In one embodiment, a method for producing a high protein corn meal from a whole stillage byproduct includes, in a corn dry-...