Matthew James Garner

US Patent:

20130172241, Jul 4, 2013

Filed:

Dec 31, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/732210

Inventors:

Mark D. HOLT - Phoenix AZ, US
Matthew R. GARNER - Houston TX, US

International Classification:

A61K 38/16

US Classification:

514 47, 514 11

Abstract:

Composition and method for processing prolamin-containing feed source into a low-vitreous gelatinous feedstuff. The feedstuff is fed to ruminant animals for the purpose of potentiating either milk production and/or conception. The feed source can be corn and the ruminant animal can be a bovine, and might be a cow. The method includes processing, by extrusion, a prolamin-containing feed source having a starch-protein matrix within which the included protein is composed of at least 3% percent prolamin. This processing produces a hydrophilic gelatinous feedstuff that has starch and protein content. The hydrophilic low-vitreous gelatinous feedstuff is fed to a ruminant animal. A rumen-retained portion of the fed feedstuff is retained within the rumen of the animal for at least a twenty-four hour period, and during the first twenty-four hours of that period, at least seventy-five percent of the starch content of the rumen-retained portion of the fed feedstuff is digested.

US Patent:

20170007667, Jan 12, 2017

Filed:

Sep 19, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/269747

Inventors:

Mark D. Holt - Phoenix AZ, US
Matthew Ryan Garner - Amarillo TX, US

International Classification:

A61K 38/16
A61K 31/718
A23K 20/163
A23K 40/25
A23K 50/10
A61K 9/00
A23K 20/147

Abstract:

Method of producing a feedstuff for a dairy animal that potentiates milk production. The method includes a multi-stage process having one stage in which a feed grain for dairy animals is heat-treated for a period of time at a temperature above 90 degrees Celsius. The grain is processed for another period of time that includes disrupting the prolamin/protein bonds which produces a hydrophilic, vitreous feedstuff having a starch and protein matrix composed at least partially by prolamin. The feed grain is heat-treated for a first period of time, of which at least 200 seconds is maintained above 90 degrees Celsius, and thereafter the feed grain is processed in a second stage by applying sufficient processing to disrupt the prolamin/protein bonds and thereby producing a hydrophilic, vitreous, feedstuff comprising a starch and protein matrix composed of at least three percent prolamin.