ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,762, issued on June 10, was assigned to Roquette Freres (Lestrem, France).
"Method for preparing a heat-modified starch" was invented by Claude Quettier (Lambersart, France), Vincent Wiatz (Premesques, France), Solene Bock (Lambersart, France) and Jacques Legrand (Verquin, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a heat-modified starch, comprising the steps of: (i) preparing a starch milk having a solids content of between 20% and 45% by weight and adding an alkaline agent, so as to obtain a final conductivity of between 4 and 7 mS/cm (ii) filtering the starch milk so as to recover a starch cake; (iii) introducing...