ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,921, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HUNAN HUACHENG BIOTECH INC (Hunan, China).

"Sugar-reduced sweetener product, preparation method therefor, and application thereof" was invented by Wei Li (Hunan, China), Huaxue Huang (Hunan, China), Jun Huang (Hunan, China), Jinjun He (Hunan, China) and Guliang Song (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sugar-reduced sweetener can be a high-intensity sweetener, a bulk sweetener, or a one sugar sweetener. The dosages of the high-intensity sweetener and the bulk sweetener satisfy a condition that the sweetness of the two compounded approaches to that of the sugar sweetener. Flavor, sweet...