US Patent Issued to General Mills on Oct. 21 for "Confectionary with improved opacity" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,593, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Confectionary with improved opacity" was invented by David J. Domingues (Plymouth, Minn.), Ruiqi Li (Plymouth, Minn.) and Vani Vemulapalli (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A confectionary that contains 3.0% to 3.5% of a short fiber length cellulose is described. The confectionary maintains a good opacity and texture after heating and good visual and textural stability over shelf life or at least one freeze/thaw cycle. A confectionary can typically have a relatively high moisture content, relatively low fat content, and relatively low non-fat sol...