ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,916, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GIVAUDAN SA (Vernier, Switzerland).

"Preparation of a solid flavour composition, a composition, food comprising the composition and a flavour imparting method" was invented by Christian Lohse (Pfaffikon, Switzerland) and Ivan Helbling (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of forming a reaction flavour solid composition, the process comprises the step of heating an aqueous slurry containing reaction flavour precursor compounds to form a reaction flavour, and concomitantly drying the slurry using microwave radiation to form a reaction flavour solid composition."

The pat...