US Patent Issued to Pioneer Pet Products on Oct. 7 for "Extruded gelling products and methods for making extruded gelling products" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,313, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Pioneer Pet Products LLC (Cedarburg, Wis.).

"Extruded gelling products and methods for making extruded gelling products" was invented by John M. Lipscomb (Cedarburg, Wis.) and Omar I. Rodriguez (Cedarburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extruded product composed of a gelling extrudate and method of extruding gelling extrudate. The extrudate is composed of cold-water soluble pregelatinized starch formed of starch in a starch-containing admixture modified by extrusion at extrusion pressures greater than 2000 PSI that gels when mixed with water, which preferably also modifies additional star...