US Patent Issued to Cargill on March 3 for "Glucose in solid form and process for manufacturing glucose in solid form" (Italian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,687, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Glucose in solid form and process for manufacturing glucose in solid form" was invented by Abdelfattah Bensouissi (Vilvoorde, Belgium), Angelo Chianese (Rome) and Marco Stoller (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glucose in solid form containing a matrix phase and a plurality of carbohydrate crystals within said matrix phase, the matrix phase containing amorphous glucose and water, wherein the carbohydrate crystals comprise glucose and optionally one or more other carbohydrate(s), and optionally wherein the glucose in solid form is coated with a dry powder coa...