ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,819, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NIKKEN FOODS Co. LTD. (Fukuroi, Japan).
"Method for producing dried fruit powder" was invented by Yoshichika Hayashi (Fukuroi, Japan), Kai Sugiyama (Fukuroi, Japan) and Siddhartha Shankar Das (Fukuroi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel method for producing a powder of a dried fruit is proposed. A method for producing a dried fruit powder includes: a water absorption step of causing a dried fruit to absorb water; a pulverization step of pulverizing the dried fruit after the water absorption step to form a paste in which the dried fruit after the water absorption step is pulverized so ...