ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,173, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Meat substitute and dumplings" was invented by Bokyeong Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Saemi Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jiyeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Gun Ae Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a binding food including cellulose ether and insoluble dietary fiber."

The patent was filed on July 12, 2022, under Application No. 18/577,958.

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