US Patent Issued to Frito-Lay North America on Nov. 11 for "Method of extrusion and making random extruded products" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,068, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Frito-Lay North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Method of extrusion and making random extruded products" was invented by Jorge C. Morales-Alvarez (Plano, Texas) and V.N. Mohan Rao (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making twisted collets includes providing a composition that incudes corn meal, feeding the composition into a single barrel that has more than one rotatable auger, and conveying the composition toward a die assembly through the more than one rotatable auger and through a transition piece having an interior flow path beginning adjacent to a downstream end of the a...