US Patent Issued to FUJI OIL on July 7 for "Oil-and-fat composition" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,658, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJI OIL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Oil-and-fat composition" was invented by Shigeki Mizushima (Izumisano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing an ascorbic acid-containing oil and fat that allows improvement of ascorbic acid content in the ascorbic acid-containing oil and fat and that can be used for a variety of food items. In this oil-and-fat composition, an appropriate amount of ascorbic acid is contained, and the ascorbic acid is contained as an aqueous solution having a pH of 2.5-5.3."

The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2019, under Applic...