ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,665, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Production of an alcohol-free beverage" was invented by Niels Gerard Adriaan Kuijpers (Haarlem, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods of producing an alcohol-reduced fermented beverage, and to a resulting alcohol-reduced fermented beverage. The invention further relates to an use of a fermentative yeast that is not capable of completely converting glucose, maltose and/or maltotriose into ethanol, for the production of an alcohol-reduced fermented beverage."
The patent was filed on Aug. 14, 2020, under Application No...