US Patent Issued to Stokely-Van Camp on May 5 for "High efficacy functional ingredient blends" (Connecticut, Illinois, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,459, issued on May 5, was assigned to Stokely-Van Camp Inc. (Chicago).

"High efficacy functional ingredient blends" was invented by Jenna Wang (Shelton, Conn.), Tsz-Ching (James) Yuan (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Lei Zhao (Nanuet, N.Y.), Lara Nyman (North Haven, Conn.), Kelly Barnes (Algonquin, Ill.), ElHadji Dioum (Chicago) and YiFang Chu (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to identify efficacious ingredients for functional blends by determining a rank of at least one functional ingredient using several pathway-based groups of functional ingredients. A rank of at least one functional ingredient is based ...