US Patent Issued to KIKKOMAN on May 26 for "Method for manufacturing cheese-like fermented food, and cheese-like fermented food" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,704, issued on May 26, was assigned to KIKKOMAN Corp. (Chiba, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing cheese-like fermented food, and cheese-like fermented food" was invented by Masahiro Katsukawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing cheese-like fermented food from a soybean raw material, which has a flavor and texture similar to cheese, is provided as follows: A coagulation step S1 of coagulating a soybean raw material using at least one member selected from lactic acid bacteria, acids, and coagulants, a curd formation step S2 of separating whey from the coagulated product obtained in the coagulation step S1, ...