US Patent Issued to The Coca-Cola, PureCircle Sdn Bhd on Sept. 9 for "Compositions and methods for improving rebaudioside M solubility" (American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,689, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta) and PureCircle Sdn Bhd (Malaysia).

"Compositions and methods for improving rebaudioside M solubility" was invented by Indra Prakash (Alpharetta, Ga.), Gil Ma (Atlanta), Avetik Markosyan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and Youlung Chen (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rebaudioside M compositions with improved aqueous solubility and methods for preparing the same are provided herein. The rebaudioside M compositions include (i) disordered crystalline compositions comprising rebaudioside M and rebaudioside D, (ii) spray-dried compositions comprising rebaudioside M...