US Patent Issued to Suntory Holdings on May 20 for "Beverage having foam retentivity and method for improving foam retentivity of beverage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,932, issued on May 20, was assigned to Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Beverage having foam retentivity and method for improving foam retentivity of beverage" was invented by Ryoki Mitsui (Kanagawa, Japan), Soichiro Urai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiaki Yokoo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji Nagao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides: a novel beverage having foam retentivity; and a method for improving foam retentivity. The present invention provides a beverage containing rebaudioside D and a compound represented by formula (1)(in the formula, R1 represents Xyl(1-2)Glc1-, and R2 represents Glc(1-...