ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,795, issued on April 15, was assigned to IOI OLEO GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Coating material for use in an HMC method" was invented by Dirk Lochmann (Deutschland, Germany), Sebastian Reyer (Deutschland, Germany), Michael Stehr (Deutschland, Germany), Andreas Zimmer (Osterreich, Austria) and Sharareh Salar Behzadi (Osterreich, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a coating material for use in a hot-melt coating method, said material containing as the main constituent one or more polyglycerol fatty acid, each obtained by way of a complete or partial esterification of a linear or branched polyglycerol containin...