US Patent Issued to NIHON SHOKUHIN KAKO on Oct. 14 for "Seafood/livestock meat product improvement agent and seafood/livestock meat product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,943, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NIHON SHOKUHIN KAKO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Seafood/livestock meat product improvement agent and seafood/livestock meat product" was invented by Akane Imaizumi (Fuji, Japan), Yusuke Ogawa (Hino, Japan) and Ryuichi Ando (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a seafood/livestock meat product improvement agent that can impart meaty firmness when used in a seafood/livestock meat product, and a seafood/livestock meat product. This seafood/livestock meat product improvement agent contains an oil/fat-processed starch having a heat solubility of 3% to 25% and a heat swelling degree of 8 ti...