US Patent Issued to Land O'Lakes on March 18 for "Butter products and methods of forming and packaging same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,054, issued on March 18, was assigned to Land O'Lakes Inc. (Arden Hills, Minn.).

"Butter products and methods of forming and packaging same" was invented by Benjamin R. Danenberg (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and Richard Dinesen (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods involve packaging butter sticks by adding unformed butter to an extruder, where the extruder shapes the butter into defined dimensions, cutting the extruded butter at a desired length to form butter sticks, cooling the butter sticks, and flow-wrapping the cooled butter sticks within an adhesive film. Systems for packaging butter sticks involve an extruder, a...