ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,602, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WEALTH & RESEARCH TRADING LTD. (Malta).
"Apparatus and method for producing dry pasta" was invented by Vittorio Cogo (Cassola, Italy) and Matteo Cogo (Cassola, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing dry pasta comprising the steps of: preparing with durum wheat flour, or soft wheat flour, and water a dough having humidity comprised between 25% and 35%; placing the dough in a chamber in which a vacuum is created comprised between 0.1 bar and 0.5 bar; pushing the dough through a drawing device by applying to the dough pressure comprised 80 bar and 110 bar, to obtain food pasta...