US Patent Issued to Cargill on March 24 for "Fat-based compositions" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,136, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Fat-based compositions" was invented by Vanessa Barey (Marcq-en-Baroeul, France), Abdelfattah Bensouissi (Vilvoorde, Belgium), Philippe Chouvy (Vilvoorde, Belgium), Nathalie De Clercq (Mouscron, Belgium) and Nick Vaes (Vilvoorde, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a reduced-sugar fat-based confectionery composition and to a process for the manufacture of said fat-based confectionery composition. The invention also relates to the use of sucrose having a small particle size distribution D90 and bulking agents for reducing the sugar an...