ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,762, issued on March 25, was assigned to eBIO Nutritional Sciences LLC (Danville, Va.).
"Sweetener composition and methods of making it" was invented by Carl R. Sahi (Coventry, Conn.), John M. Polidoro (Tolland, Conn.), Mark Ennis Ketner (Fuquay Varina, N.C.) and Dakshinamurthy Devanga Chinta (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sweetener composition includes a plurality of assembled particles including natural, non-nutritive sweetener molecules, organic scaffold particles and at least one additive. The natural, non-nutritive sweetener molecules include hydrophilic moieties and hydrophobic moieties. The organic scaffo...