US Patent Issued to NSTX INDUSTRIES on Nov. 18 for "Process for producing cookable, fibrous meat analogs via directional freezing" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,607, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NSTX INDUSTRIES INC. (Toronto).

"Process for producing cookable, fibrous meat analogs via directional freezing" was invented by Christopher Bryson (Toronto), Derick Rousseau (Brampton, Canada), Auke De Vries (Toronto), Christopher Mark Gregson (Princeton, N.J.) and Raphael De Henau (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a process for producing "cookable", fibrous meat analogs employing directional freezing. The process includes subjecting an ingestible hydrocolloid to directional freezing for inducing formation of elongated ice crystals in which the elongated ic...