ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,073, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MEIJI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Solid food and solid milk" was invented by Aya Kato (Tokyo), Tetsu Kamiya (Tokyo) and Koji Yamamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solid food and a solid milk which have suitable solubility and strength adequate to resist breakage during handling. The solid food is a solid food having a solid form obtained by compression molding a food powder, in which an increase in total crystallization rate that is a difference of a crystal ratio with respect to a total weight on a surface of the solid food relative to a crystal ratio in an inner part of the sol...