ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,451, issued on June 10, was assigned to SYMRISE AG (Holzminden, Germany).
"Production of ethanol-free vanilla extracts" was invented by Johannes Kiefl (Holzminden, Germany), Stefan Brennecke (Halle, Germany), Martin Heinemeyer (Hoxter, Germany) and Dominik Winkler (Hoxter, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for producing an ethanol-free vanilla extract, and an ethanol-free vanilla extract obtainable by the process according to the invention. In particular, the present invention relates to an ethanol-free vanilla extract comprising at most 100 mg/kg ethanol, the use of this ethanol-free v...