US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on March 4 for "Method for production of soft cheese comprising simultaneous addition of acidifying bacteria and coagulant" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,141, issued on March 4, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Method for production of soft cheese comprising simultaneous addition of acidifying bacteria and coagulant" was invented by Sylvain Brocheret (Paris), Marc Faiveley (Villenave d'Ornon, France), Jean-Paul Poignand (Besancon, France) and Sebastien Roustel (Chateau-Chalon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for treatment of milk which is to be used in the preparation of soft cheese, the method comprises adding, practically simultaneously a slow acidifying bacterial culture, a fast acidifying bacterial culture and at least ...