ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,274, issued on July 22, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).
"Shaped vegetarian meat product" was invented by Luuk Christianus Hubertus Beekmans (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Leonardus Marcus Flendrig (Vlaardingen, Netherlands) and Marc Lemmers (Vlaardingen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaped vegetarian meat product comprising: 30-80 wt. % water; 5-35 wt. % oil, said oil having a solid fat content at 20 degrees Celsius (N20) of at least 1.5%; 2-25 wt. % protein selected from algal protein, bacterial protein, dairy protein, egg protein, fungal protein, plant protein, and combinations thereof; 0-40 wt. % ...