ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,134, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Non-dairy creamer and method of making the same" was invented by Guifang Chang (Jiangsu, China), Yun Ge (Jlangsu, China), Weifeng Huang (Beijing) and Yaobin Si (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a non-dairy creamer including a triglyceride composition. The triglyceride composition includes triglycerides having a specific fatty acid profile. The triglyceride composition has a trans fatty acid value of from about 0 wt % to about 1 wt % by weight of the total fatty acid content, an oxidative stability index of greater than ab...