US Patent Issued to General Mills on Nov. 4 for "Hard taco shell and method for producing the hard taco shell" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,031, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Hard taco shell and method for producing the hard taco shell" was invented by Christine M. Dosch (Minneapolis), John James Fenske (Shoreview, Minn.), Jason Herzog (St. Louis Park, Minn.), James David Nelson (Bloomington, Minn.) and Christine M. Nowakowski (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A taco shell is produced by applying a plasticizing agent to a targeted region including a base or spine portion of a hard taco shell and lower sections of taco shell sidewalls, thereby softening the targeted region, preferably across a strip width between 16 mm-2...