US Patent Issued to N.V. Nutricia on Oct. 21 for "Process for preparing powders by spray drying and powders obtainable thereby" (New Zealander, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,606, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to N.V. Nutricia (Zoetermeer, Netherlands).

"Process for preparing powders by spray drying and powders obtainable thereby" was invented by Maria Del Rayo Hernandez Sanchez (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Jordan Nicolaas Van Der Wel (Matamata, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a use of octenylsuccinyl anhydride substituted starch (OSA starch) for increasing the dry weight content and/or the fat content of a liquid composition that is subjected to a spray-drying step, and also to a process for preparing powders. The present invention enables the spray-drying of e...