ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,608, issued on April 29, was assigned to ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Beer-taste fermented malt beverage" was invented by Jun Kubota (Tokyo) and Syotaro Maekawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to provide a beer-taste fermented malt beverage with an alcohol concentration of less than 1% (v/v), which has beer-like fermented feeling and robust feeling of drinking, and does not give a watery drinking feeling. The means for solving the problems is a beer-taste fermented malt beverage with an alcohol concentration of less than 1% (v/v), containing a wort fermented liquid, more than 5.3 ppm and less...