ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,512, issued on March 17, was assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Fermented beverage and method of producing a fermented beverage" was invented by Sabine Charlette Jacqueline Tessiot (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a fermented beverage as well as a method of producing a fermented beverage, particularly a beer or beer-like beverage, with an ethanol content of between 0.0% and 1.0% by volume, the method comprising providing an ethanol containing fermented base beverage, reducing the ethanol content of the fermented base beverage by a de-alcoholisation step, followed by adding flavor t...