US Patent Issued to Sonomaceuticals on Oct. 14 for "Food compositions incorporating agricultural marc, and methods of producing thereof" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,935, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sonomaceuticals LLC (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Food compositions incorporating agricultural marc, and methods of producing thereof" was invented by Torey Arvik (Vallejo, Calif.) and Ralph Jerome (New Hope, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to agricultural marc, and food compositions incorporating such agricultural marc to improve the texture, flavor, aroma, mouthfeel, nutritional content, or shelf life of the food composition. In one example, the agricultural marc may be obtained from Chardonnay grapes, which when incorporated into chocolate can give the resulting com...