US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES on March 25 for "Metastable, translucent flavor nanoemulsion and methods of preparing the same" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,753, issued on March 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. (New York).

"Metastable, translucent flavor nanoemulsion and methods of preparing the same" was invented by Daniel Kaiping Lee (Morganville, N.J.), Chii-Fen Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Ying Yang (Holmdel, N.J.) and Ronald Gabbard (Farmingdale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metastable, translucent flavor nanoemulsion is provided. The nanoemulsion contains a flavor oil phase, an aqueous phase, and a surfactant system containing a first lecithin and a second lecithin. The nanoemulsion is free of any non-natural surfactant. The surfactant system contain...