ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,049, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).
"Steviol glycoside solubility enhancers" was invented by Dan S. Gaspard (Victoria, Minn.) and Adam T. Zarth (St. Louis Park, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solubilized steviol glycoside composition including one or more steviol glycosides and one or more steviol glycoside solubility enhancers can be used as a sweetener composition to sweeten other compositions (sweetenable compositions) such as foods, beverages, medicines, oral hygiene compositions, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and the like."
The patent was filed on June 20, 2022, under Application No. ...