US Patent Issued to FIRMENICH on Aug. 4 for "Compositions for reducing salty taste and uses thereof" (British, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,918, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FIRMENICH SA (Satigny, Switzerland).

"Compositions for reducing salty taste and uses thereof" was invented by Bharani Ashokan (Plainsboro, N.J.), Muhammad Kizilbash (Plainsboro, N.J.), Qing-Bo Ouyang (Plainsboro, N.J.), Stuart Dash (Southall, Great Britain) and Patrice Merceret (Satigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally provides taste-modifying compositions that reduce the salty taste of a sodium salt, such as sodium bicarbonate. In some aspects, the disclosure provides uses of such taste-modifying compositions to reduce the salty taste of a sodium salt....