US Patent Issued to Suntory Holdings on Feb. 25 for "Coffee beverage having improved quality of taste exhibited by sugar, sweetener, and sodium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,507, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Coffee beverage having improved quality of taste exhibited by sugar, sweetener, and sodium" was invented by Yoji Asami (Kanagawa, Japan), Tadahiro Ohkuri (Kanagawa, Japan), Akiko Fujie (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Nagao (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Yokoo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a coffee beverage having improved taste quality exhibited by a sugar, a sweetener, and amount of sodium and a method for producing the coffee beverage."

The patent was filed on Dec. 6, 2019, under Application No. 17/299,833.

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