US Patent Issued to Givaudan on July 8 for "Method of mitigating conversion of volatile terpene species" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,546, issued on July 8, was assigned to Givaudan SA (Vernier, Switzerland).

"Method of mitigating conversion of volatile terpene species" was invented by Jonathon Cannell (Cincinnati), Andrew Finn (Milford, Ohio), Chad Allen Hansen (Lebanon, Ohio) and Geoff Marshall-Hill (Newport Pagnell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The conversion of nootkatol to nootkatene in a terpene blend is mitigated or prevented by substantially or completely separating the nootkatols such as Alpha-nootkatol from compounds present in the terpene blend that catalyze the chemical reaction of nootkatol to nootkatene, and/or by at least partially neu...