ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,024, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bunges Loders Croklaan B.V. (Wormerveer, Netherlands).
"Edible confectionery ink composition for 3D-printing" was invented by Hendrikus Mulder (Wormerveer, Netherlands), Helen Cornelia Smit (Wormerveer, Netherlands) and Jun Ma (Wormerveer, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edible confectionery ink composition for 3D printing comprises: from 20% to 75% by weight of sweetener, preferably sugar, and from 15% to 50% by weight of a fat composition, wherein the fat composition comprises from 0% to 3% by weight of lauric acid (C12:0); and from 35% to 70% by weight of saturated fatty acid (...