US Patent Issued to FUJI OIL on Nov. 4 for "Vegetable milk fermented food product, and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,047, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJI OIL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vegetable milk fermented food product, and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Masanobu Yanagisawa (Sakai, Japan) and Naoya Ikenaga (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vegetable milk fermented food product having a creamy mouthfeel and having the same smoothness as yogurt, the vegetable milk fermented food product being such that it is possible to user EPS-producing bacteria of a wider variety of types irrespective of whether said bacteria have Alpha-galactosidase activity. A method for ...