US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Confections that rise and fall in a carbonated beverage and methods and equipment for production thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,026, issued on April 29.

"Confections that rise and fall in a carbonated beverage and methods and equipment for production thereof" was invented by Stacy Ann McNeil (Eureka, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edible confections which repeatedly rise and sink in a carbonated beverage due to changing buoyancy resulting from a time-varying population of carbonation bubbles on the surface of the confection, and the associated equipment and processes for production. A low solubility gelatin-based "gummi" confections are preferred because the dimensions of the confections and their surface properties are relatively invariant with time, a...