ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,634, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY (Wuxi, China).
"Method for preparing V-type granular porous starch" was invented by Xing Zhou (Wuxi, China), Zhengyu Jin (Wuxi, China), Qing Chang (Wuxi, China), Ren Wang (Wuxi, China), Jinpeng Wang (Wuxi, China), Jianwei Zhao (Wuxi, China), Aiquan Jiao (Wuxi, China) and Jie Long (Wuxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing V-type granular porous starch includes the following steps: mixing starch and an ethanol aqueous solution in a temperature of 100-150deg C. to yield V-type granular starch; and adding a mixed enzyme including alpha-amylase and amylog...