US Patent Issued to Perfetti Van Melle Benelux on July 8 for "System and method for forming and cooling chewing gum" (New Jersey, Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,696, issued on July 8, was assigned to Perfetti Van Melle Benelux B.V. (Breda, Netherlands).

"System and method for forming and cooling chewing gum" was invented by Bharat Jani (East Brunswick, N.J.), Leonard Scarola (Cary, N.C.), Miles Van Niekerk (Madison, N.J.), Krishna Adivi (Summit, N.J.), Jesse Kiefer (Oxford, N.J.) and Hendrik Eyselee (Glencoe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for forming and cooling gum, the system including a forming system configured to size the gum to include a substantially uniform thickness, a cooling device that is disposed in-line with the forming system and configured to contin...