ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,697, issued on July 8, was assigned to Perfetti Van Melle S.P.A. (Lainate (Milano), Italy).
"Apparatus for making a confectionery product" was invented by Alessio Tulli (Origgio, Italy) and Evsen Suleymanoglu (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A description is given of an apparatus (10) for making a confectionery product (1) comprising a chewing gum having the shape of an irregular pentagon with rounded corners and sides of elliptical or semi-elliptical shape, the apparatus comprising a forming roller (11) and a contrasting element (12), wherein said forming roller (11) has a pattern obtained from the superimposition of two recipro...