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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2022
Cruz Foam, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
William Thomas Lewczyk, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Juan Manuel Bravo, Fairlawn, OH (US);
Maanas Maheshwari, Greensboro, NC (US);
Nicholas Cesario, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
John Selberg, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Brandon Miller, Truckee, CA (US);
CRUZ FOAM, INC., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described. The method comprising inputting starch into an extruder, inputting a plasticizer into the extruder, outputting an extrudate from the extruder, and chopping the extrudate output from the extruder into pellets. The extrudate includes the starch and the plasticizer. A pellet for manufacturing a biodegradable product is described. The pellet comprises starch and a plasticizer. A composition of the pellet, by weight percent, includes a starch weight percent representative of the starch included in the pellet and a plasticizer weight percent representative of the plasticizer included in the pellet. The starch weight percent is greater than the plasticizer weight percent and a density of the pellet is at least 0.5 g/cm.
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