ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,318, issued on April 7, was assigned to THE CANE JUICE COMPANY LLC (Jupiter, Fla.).
"System and method for manufacturing a policosanol-rich granulated sugar cane juice product" was invented by Jorge Enrique Gonzalez-Ulloa (Ocala, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing sugar cane juice from raw sugar cane stalks to produce various forms of a natural sugar cane juice product preserves policosanols naturally occurring in the raw sugar cane stalks, resulting in policosanol-rich natural sugar cane juice-based products such as a dry, granulated sweetener concentrate."
The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2022, under Appli...