ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,027, issued on April 29, was assigned to PERFETTI VAN MELLE S.P.A. (Lainate, Italy).
"Confectionery product and manufacturing process thereof" was invented by Tanja Catharina Jozefina Vleugels (Tm Breda, Netherlands), Petrus Henricus De Jong (Bd Breda, Netherlands) and Alessandro Bottini (Lainate, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a confectionery product including a chewy center, free of gelatine and other hydrocolloids different from gellan gum, including gellan gum, a layer of at least partially amorphous candy material surrounding the chewy center and optionally one or more additional coating layers surrounding the ...