ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,897, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MAGNUM ICC US LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Frozen confection manufacture" was invented by Mansoor Ahmed Ansari (Bedford, Great Britain) and Georgios Tetradis-Mairis (Bedford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a process for manufacturing a concentrate for making a premix for a frozen confection, wherein the concentrate is in the form of granules. The process comprises the steps of: (a) forming an oil-in-water emulsion wherein the fat droplets in the emulsion have an average particle size (D3,2) of less than 1 micron, the emulsion comprising fat in an amount of at least 65% by...