ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,460, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V. (Zoeterwoude, Netherlands).
"Hop extract" was invented by Paulien Hollering (Zoeterwoude, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of preparing a liquid hop extract suspension or a liquid hop extract is disclosed, comprising: (a) providing a hop material selected from hops, dried hops, hop pellets and combinations thereof; (b) combining 100 parts by weight of aqueous liquid with 1-20 parts by weight of the hop material to produce a hop suspension containing at least 95 wt. % water; (c) maintaining the hop suspension at a temperature of 8-40deg C. for at leas...