US Patent Issued to Kraft Foods Group Brands on May 5 for "Multilayer edible products comprising a center and a barrier layer" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,235, issued on May 5, was assigned to Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC (Chicago).

"Multilayer edible products comprising a center and a barrier layer" was invented by Allison Therese Nowak (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Dongjun Zhao (Glenview, Ill.), Jonathan Wiese (Chicago), Kathryn Dugan Mahaffey (Chicago), Yan Wang (Northfield, Ill.), Julia Lee Gregg-Albers (Glenview, Ill.) and Judith Gulten Moca (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer edible product includes a center, a barrier layer directly encompassing at least a portion of the center, and an outer layer directly encompassing the barrier layer and indirectly encompas...