US Patent Issued to PERFETTI VAN MELLE BENELUX on May 12 for "System and method for efficient pellet manufacturing" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,444, issued on May 12, was assigned to PERFETTI VAN MELLE BENELUX BV (HK Breda, Netherlands).

"System and method for efficient pellet manufacturing" was invented by Gigi Ng (East Hanover, N.J.), David Guevara (Puebla, Mexico) and Bharat Jani (East Hanover, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separating a trim section from a body of comestible structure includes forming a trim score line in the body of the comestible structure to define the trim section in the body of comestible structure and actively applying a force to the trim section via a force generating device to separate the trim section from the body of comestible...