US Patent Issued to International Flavors & Fragrances on Oct. 28 for "Surface modified microcapsules" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,791, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (New York).

"Surface modified microcapsules" was invented by Takashi Sasaki (Union Beach, N.J.) and John Brahms (Union Beach, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a microcapsule composition include the steps of: (a) providing a microcapsule formed of an encapsulating polymer having a primary or secondary amine group. (b) providing a deposition agent having a reactive group, and (c) forming a covalent bond between the primary or secondary amine group and the reactive group to graft the deposition agent to the encapsulating polymer. Als...