ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,310, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Onion flavour composition and method for the preparation thereof" was invented by Salomon Leendert Abrahamse (Wageningen, Netherlands), Parag Acharya (Wageningen, Netherlands), Amir Maximiliaan Batenburg (Maassluis, Netherlands), Jochen Blume (Holzminden, Germany), Lars Grohmann (Holzminden, Germany), Matthias Hille (Holzminden, Germany), Jens Koch (Holzminden, Germany), Volkmar Koppe (Holzminden, Germany), Christopher Sabater-Luentzel (Holzminden, Germany) and Michel Vander Stappen (Wageningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relat...