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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hans G. Franke, Incline Village, NV (US);
Donald R. Bittner, Irving, TX (US);
Assignee:
Standard Starch, L.L.C., Tampa, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L 3/00 ;
Abstract
Biodegradable sorghum meal-based extruded shaped products or articles and methods of manufacturing the same. In particular, extruded sorghum meal-based products processed by compression, stretching or compression and stretching provide excellent flexibility, pliability, dimensional stability, resiliency, abrasion resistance and other properties making them attractive for use as packaging materials.