US Patent Issued to Land O'Lakes on March 25 for "Brown butter and systems and methods for the continuous production thereof" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,751, issued on March 25, was assigned to Land O'Lakes Inc. (Arden Hills, Minn.).

"Brown butter and systems and methods for the continuous production thereof" was invented by Jill Paddock (Maplewood, Minn.), Nicole Igielski (Oakdale, Minn.), Thomas Aurand (Woodbury, Minn.) and Richard Dinesen (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the continuous production of brown butter involves concentrating butter while retaining solids non-fat in the butter, and continuously transferring and heating the concentrated butter to cause the solids non-fat in the butter to react in a Maillard reaction to form a brown b...