ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,717, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Pastificio Rana S.p.A. (Italy).
"Cooking process" was invented by Gian Luca Rana (San Giovanni Lupatoto, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking procedure to cook pasta; the procedure comprises a water feeding step. During which a given quantity of liquid water at a temperature of at least 50deg C. is fed to a container; and a vapour feeding step, during which a given quantity of water vapour is fed to the container containing a given quantity of pasta for an amount of time ranging from 7 to 40 seconds; the vapour feeding step is at least partially simultaneous with or subsequent to the ...