Senomyx Inc. has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,939,671, which includes composition-of-matter claims for a family of Senomyx’s bitter blockers and their use in all forms of foods and beverages, as well as in medicaments and other products.

Senomyx Inc. has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,928,111 covering foods and beverages containing S2383, an enhancer of the sweetener sucralose.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has assigned a patent to Cargill for "high-pressure pasteurizing of ground meats."

U.S. patent no. 7,910,758, issued on March 22, was assigned to H R D Corp. for "Catalytic Hydrogenation Process for the Production of Low Trans Fat-Containing Triglycerides" was invented by Abbas Hassan (Sugarland, Texas), Ebrahim Bagherzadeh (Sugar Land, Texas), Rayford G. Anthony (College Station, Texas), Gregory Borsinger (Chatham, N.J.) and Aziz Hassan (Sugar Land, Texas).