US Patent Issued to Land O'Lakes on June 10 for "Dairy-based meat substitute and methods of producing the same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,446, issued on June 10, was assigned to Land O'Lakes Inc. (Arden Hills, Minn.).

"Dairy-based meat substitute and methods of producing the same" was invented by Orlando Maldonado (Minneapolis), Molly Erickson (Roseville, Minn.) and Susan Reed (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Meat substitutes include at least a dried milk product, a carbohydrate, and a liquid such as water. The dried milk product includes one or both of non-fat dry milk and buttermilk powder. The carbohydrate includes one or both of syrup solids, such as corn syrup solids, and a starch, such as modified corn starch. The meat substitutes include amino a...