US Patent Issued to FUJI OIL on April 14 for "Oily food for frozen desserts" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,149, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJI OIL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Oily food for frozen desserts" was invented by Maki Kitawaki (Ibaraki, Japan), Yukako Yokohigashi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hideki Motoike (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an oily food that imparts an unprecedented characteristic texture in frozen dessert applications. By containing a sucrose fatty acid ester having an HLB of 3 or less and saccharides and setting the particle size of the solid content to a specific size or more, an oily food for frozen desserts having a new texture with quality defect...