ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,474, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SYMRISE AG (Holzminden, Germany).

"Compositions for sour taste balancing" was invented by Thomas Riess (Holzminden, Germany), Tom Somers (Holzminden, Germany), Jens Fahle (Heinade, Germany), Katharina Reichelt (Holzminden, Germany), Jakob Ley (Holzminden, Germany), Susanne Paetz (Hoxter, Germany) and Rebecca Wiebusch (Holzminden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an aroma composition comprising at least one taste modifier having the general formula I or a salt thereof, a semi-finished product comprising such an aroma composition, a finished product comprising such an...