US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY on June 16 for "Composition for enhancing umami comprising tyrosine-amino acid peptide and use thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,217, issued on June 16, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea).

"Composition for enhancing umami comprising tyrosine-amino acid peptide and use thereof" was invented by Hyun Joon Kim (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea) and Eui-Cheol Shin (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition includes tyrosine-amino acid peptide as effective component. The composition may enhance umami. The amino acid may be lysine, methionine, valine, serine, cysteine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, alanine, isoleucine, leucine, threonine, tyrosine...