ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,845, issued on July 14, was assigned to Voyage Foods Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Coffee replicas produced from individual components" was invented by Lucas Baker (San Francisco), Adam Jacob Maxwell (San Francisco), Jillian Angela Jastrzembski (San Francisco), Taylor Shulman (Berkeley, Calif.), Alec Kremonic Lee (San Francisco), Mardonn Carl Chua (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Daniel Assad Saad (Dallas) and Ethan Charles Beswick (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials and methods for producing coffee replicas from individual components are provided herein. Such coffee replicas can comprise one or more volatile organic compounds (VOC...