US Patent Issued to NICOVENTURES TRADING on Oct. 14 for "Oral compositions with reduced water activity" (North Carolina, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,949, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Oral compositions with reduced water activity" was invented by Darrell Eugene Holton Jr. (Clemmons, N.C.), Ronald K. Hutchens (East Bend, N.C.), Christopher Keller (Advance, N.C.), Thomas H. Poole (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Dwayne William Beeson (Kernersville, N.C.), Frank Kelley St. Charles (Bowling Green, Ky.), Chris J. Grimes (High Point, N.C.) and Anthony Richard Gerardi (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for oral compositions and products that can have a relatively low water content and/or a relatively low water acti...