ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,137, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Compositions providing slow release of caffeine" was invented by Yu Wang (New York), DaSom No (White Plains, N.Y.), Yuan Fang (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Nelson Trusler (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Damian Browne (Old Greenwich, Conn.), George Meyer (White Plains, N.Y.), Xin Zhao (Shanghai), Meng Tian (Luoyang, China) and Shiyi Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to complexes comprising caffeine and tannic acid as well as emulsions and beverages comprising these complexes which slow the release of the caffeine. Also described are...