US Patent Issued to KIKKOMAN on July 14 for "Powdered soy sauce and production method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,859, issued on July 14, was assigned to KIKKOMAN Corp. (Chiba, Japan).

"Powdered soy sauce and production method thereof" was invented by Yasushi Takahagi (Chiba, Japan), Hiromi Okabe (Chiba, Japan) and Yasutaka Hashioka (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a powdered soy sauce containing at least one of pea powder and soybean powder. The invention also relates to a method for producing a powdered soy sauce including adding at least one of pea powder and soybean powder to a liquid soy sauce 5 and then conducting dry-powdering process of the liquid soy sauce."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2021, un...