ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,430, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China) and SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY-ZHUHAI INSTITUTE OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION (Zhuhai, China).

"Starch-embedded aroma substance microcapsule and preparation method therefor" was invented by Qiang Huang (Guangzhou, China), Qing Gao (Guangzhou, China), Bin Zhang (Guangzhou, China) and Xiong Fu (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention are a starch-embedded aroma substance microcapsule and a preparation method therefor. The method comprises: performing degreasing treatment on starch, gela...