ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,088, issued on March 11, was assigned to Roquette Freres (Lestrem, France).
"Method of preparing a heat-modified starch" was invented by Solene Bock (Lambersart, France), Vincent Wiatz (Premesques, France) and Claude Quettier (Lambersart, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of producing a heat-modified starch comprising the steps of: (i) preparing a starch milk containing between 30 and 40% by weight, preferably between 35 and 37% by weight, solid matter, (ii) adding a powdery alkaline agent such as to obtain a final conductivity of between 0.7 and 2.5 mS/cm, (iii) ensuring a contact time of betwe...