ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,973, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Glucanova AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method for preparing a liquid oat base and products prepared by the method" was invented by Ana Rascon (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of preparing a liquid oat base a material comprising oat bran is suspended in an aqueous media and contacted with Alpha-amylase, Beta-amylase, Beta-glucanase, and xylanase to raise the concentration of soluble arabinoxylan by a factor of 5 or more. Also disclosed is a liquid oat base obtainable by the method; a powderous oat base obtained by drying the liquid oat base; uses of the liquid and powderous oat ba...