ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,273, issued on April 15, was assigned to MEIJI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Whey protein granules" was invented by Hiroki Hattori (Tokyo), Koji Yamamura (Tokyo), Takashi Osada (Tokyo), Keisuke Kadoyama (Tokyo) and Toshiaki Tochigi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention relates to protein granules containing a whey protein as a main component, the protein granules having an average particle diameter of 207 micro metre to 570 micro metre, a homogeneity U of 0.58 or less, a content ratio (volume ratio) of coarse powder having a particle diameter of 500 micro metre or more of 22% or less, and a content ratio (v...