US Patent Issued to MEIJI on May 26 for "Food physical property assessment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,433, issued on May 26, was assigned to MEIJI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Food physical property assessment method" was invented by Motoki Inoue (Tokyo), Wakako Tanaka (Tokyo) and Reina Kanda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food physical property evaluation method includes: placing a food to be evaluated on a lower occlusal part of a lower plunger which has a shape to occlude with an upper occlusal part of an upper plunger and faces the upper occlusal part of the upper plunger; causing the upper plunger or the lower plunger to perform a reciprocating linear movement in a linear direction in which the upper plunger and the lower plunger ...