US Patent Issued to Sudzucker on June 10 for "Isomaltulose-containing hard caramels and process for preparing the same" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,443, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sudzucker AG (Mannheim, Germany).

"Isomaltulose-containing hard caramels and process for preparing the same" was invented by Ingrid Willibald-Ettle (Landau, Germany), David Richfield (Worms, Germany), Jorg Willfahrt (Monsheim, Germany), Christina Lutz (Gipf-Oberfrick, Switzerland) and Raymond Place (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to isomaltulose-containing hard caramels comprising a core and a closed microcrystalline surface layer having a thickness of at most 1 mm, and to processes for preparing isomaltulose-containing hard caramels."

The paten...