ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,878, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PM-INTERNATIONAL AG (Schengen, Luxembourg).

"Powdered food supplement for producing a beverage" was invented by Rolf Sorg (Schengen, Luxembourg), Tobias Kuhne (Morbach, Germany) and Wilhelm Messer (Bad Durkheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powdered dietary supplement, containing a) 50 to 90% by weight of at least one saccharide, b) 2 to 20% by weight of apple extract, wine grape extract and saffron, c) at least one herbal extract selected from ginger extract, ginseng extract and pepper extract, d) at least one zinc compound, e) at least two B group vitamins, and f) at least one aci...