US Patent Issued to HEALTHTECH BIO ACTIVES, S.L.U. on Dec. 16 for "Sweetening and taste-masking compositions, products and uses thereof" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,820, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HEALTHTECH BIO ACTIVES, S.L.U. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Sweetening and taste-masking compositions, products and uses thereof" was invented by Tom Nelly A. D'Hoore (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Francisco Borrego Rios (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Francisco Javier Crespo Montero (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sweetening composition comprising neohesperidin dihydrochalcone (NHDC) and gamma-cyclodextrin, to the use of the sweetening composition for sweetening ingestible products, namely, food products and pharmaceuticals, and to an...