ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,596, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to A.G.V. PRODUCTS CORP (Chiayi County, Taiwan) and KULUDRINK KOMBUCHA LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Kombucha fermented beverage preserving active Bacillus coagulans at ambient temperature and preparation method thereof" was invented by Yu-Fen Wang (Chiayi, Taiwan), Kwan-Han Chen (Chiayi, Taiwan), Hung-Chi Hsiao (Chiayi, Taiwan), Meng-Hsuan Chuang (Chiayi, Taiwan), Yen-Chung Chen (Chiayi, Taiwan), Yu-Shin Chen (Chiayi, Taiwan), Pi-Feng Tsao (Chiayi, Taiwan) and Chun-En Gao (Chiayi, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention relates to two-stage inoculation and two-stage fermentation proce...