US Patent Issued to Nicoventures Trading on May 27 for "Oral compositions with reduced water content" (North Carolina, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,959, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (London).

"Oral compositions with reduced water content" was invented by Anthony Richard Gerardi (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Dwayne William Beeson (Kernersville, N.C.), Ronald K. Hutchens (Advance, N.C.), Christopher Keller (Advance, N.C.), Thomas H. Poole (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Andries Don Sebastian (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Frank Kelley St. Charles (Bowling Green, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for oral compositions that exhibit desired properties associated with moist products while incorporating a relatively low water content. Such composition...