US Patent Issued to Kraft Foods Group Brands on July 1 for "Compositions and methods for inhibiting precipitation of dyes in a beverage" (Illinois, New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,839, issued on July 1, was assigned to Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC (Chicago).

"Compositions and methods for inhibiting precipitation of dyes in a beverage" was invented by Daniel Piorkowski (Fairfield, Conn.), Thomas Plonski (White Plains, N.Y.) and Karl Ragnarsson (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage product containing a first azo-component and a second azo-component in a weight about 1:999 to about 999:1; an electrolyte; and a solvent, wherein the first azo-component and the second-component remain in solution for at least thirty days."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/213,6...