US Patent Issued to Frito-Lay North America on June 10 for "Temperature control for a rotary head extruder" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,454, issued on June 10, was assigned to Frito-Lay North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Temperature control for a rotary head extruder" was invented by Ximena Quintero-Fuentes (Plano, Texas), Pavan Harshit Manepalli (Plano, Texas) and Robert Egnatchik (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved rotary head extruder has at least one rotatable auger disposed within a single barrel and having an upstream end and a downstream end. The extruder has a die assembly that includes (i) a stator having a stator head at the downstream end of the at least one rotatable auger and a stationary plate surrounding an outlet end of the ...