ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,576, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PERFETTI VAN MELLE BENELUX BV (Breda, Netherlands).

"System and method for temperature control of chewing gum" was invented by Ann E. Buck (Whippany, N.J.), Bharat Jani (Whippany, N.J.) and Miles J. van Niekerk (Whippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for cooling chewing gum, the system including a cooling housing including a relatively upper cooling environment and a relatively lower cooling environment, a conveying device configured to convey the chewing gum from an entry point to an exit point of the cooling housing, the conveying device at least partially delim...