US Patent Issued to Sensient Colors on June 10 for "Beverages with improved particle suspension properties, and methods of making the same" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,453, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sensient Colors LLC (St. Louis).

"Beverages with improved particle suspension properties, and methods of making the same" was invented by Caitlin Wertz (St. Louis), Abby Christman (St. Louis), Karen Brimmer (St. Louis), Liangji Xu (St. Louis) and James Buchheit (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beverages with improved particle suspension properties are disclose, along with methods of making the same. The beverages include a low-acyl gellan gum and insoluble particles. The low-acyl gellan gum undergoes a gel transition that provides adequate gelation to maintain the particles in suspensi...