ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,473, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KELLANOVA (Battle Creek, Mich.).
"Dual-spray reduced sugar coating system and method" was invented by Eric Joseph Homan (Portage, Mich.), Tamila Rena Williams (Richland, Mich.) and Gabriela Perez-Hernandez (Portage, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for applying a reduced sugar coating to a food product is provided. The system uses separate applications (simultaneous or sequential) of a non-sucrose carbohydrate syrup from a first applicator and a sucrose syrup from a second applicator. The dual applications of the syrups are applied without an active drying step between a...