ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,146, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).
"Preparation of fat-based confections" was invented by Armando J. Castro (Westchester, Ill.), Barry David Glazier (Elizabethtown, Pa.), Eyal M. Ben-Yoseph (Long Valley, N.J.), Chia-Hua Hsu (Glenview, Ill.), Sara Kelley (Carlisle, Pa.), Emine Unlu (Chicago), Neil A. Willcocks (Glencoe, Ill.) and Thomas M. Collins (Hackettstown, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a novel method of preparing fat-based confectionery products."
The patent was filed on Aug. 3, 2020, under Application No. 17/632,486.
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