US Patent Issued to General Mills on Jan. 27 for "Method of making multi-textured confectionery pieces" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,896, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method of making multi-textured confectionery pieces" was invented by Darryl J. Ballman (Wyoming, Minn.), Robert Erickson (Robbinsdale, Minn.), Sahil Gupta (Saint Louis Park, Minn.) and Robert J. Risser (Howard Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-textured confectionery pieces, such as marbits for use in cereal, are prepared by combining particulates with a non-aerated marshmallow slurry to form a pumpable dough/particulate slurry. The pumpable confection/particulate slurry is then combined with a cooled, aerated marshmallow slurry. By first formin...