ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,760, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vegetable protein binder, chunk meat-like meat alternative, and method of producing chunk meat-like meat alternative" was invented by Naoki Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vegetable protein binder contains: a polysaccharide including a thermally irreversible gel-forming polysaccharide and a thermally reversible gel-forming polysaccharide; and a gelation retardant."

The patent was filed on Dec. 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/539,307.

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