US Patent Issued to KELLANOVA on April 22 for "Processed leguminous materials" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,632, issued on April 22, was assigned to KELLANOVA (Battle Creek, Mich.).

"Processed leguminous materials" was invented by Monjur Hossen (Battle Creek, Mich.), John David Pinkston (Battle Creek, Mich.), Alina Ruxandra Tenea (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and George Cherian (Battle Creek, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of processing raw leguminous materials, such as pea flour, pea concentrate, or pea isolate, to reduce non-volatile flavor components and in particular bound saponin compounds. The methods includes select processing steps by steam cooking a raw slurry to form a cooked slurry and drying the cooked slurry to...