ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,305, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Jasper Products LLC (Joplin, Mo.).
"Oat-based beverage composition" was invented by Eric M. Norwood (Stotts City, Mo.) and Natalie L. Overfelt (Joplin, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rapid hydrolysis methods for producing oat-based beverage compositions, and compositions produced thereby. Continuous flow process to yield a hydrolyzed oat-based beverage in only a few hours, comprising a sequential treatment of an oat flour slurry with glucoamylase and then alpha-amylase enzyme with respective hydrolysis times of less than about 1.5 hours to yield a final hydrolyzed oat slurry, and finishing th...