ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,885, issued on June 10, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mixed sugar composition and food composition containing same" was invented by Min Hoe Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Young Mi Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Ran Young Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Mi Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Eul-Soo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sungkyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Youn-Kyung Bak (Seoul, South Korea), Seong Bo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Eun Jung Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a mixed sugar composition containing tagatose and sorbose."

The patent was filed on March 26, ...