US Patent Issued to THE HERSHEY on July 21 for "Binders and methods of making and using the same" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,325, issued on July 21, was assigned to THE HERSHEY COMPANY (Hershey, Pa.).

"Binders and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Yvette Thibault Pascua Cubides (Palmyra, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comestible binder includes water, glycerol, and about 25% by weight or greater of a protein source including a protein. A comestible product includes inclusions and the binder holding the inclusions together in the comestible product. A method of forming a binder includes combining water, glycerol, and about 10% by weight or greater of the protein source to form a binder composition. The method also includes removing...