US Patent Issued to MEIJI on May 26 for "Puffed food" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,696, issued on May 26, was assigned to MEIJI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Puffed food" was invented by Takefumi Ichimura (Tokyo) and Megumi Tada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides an expanded food containing a milk protein in a proportion of 75 mass % or more based on the total protein, wherein the expanded food has a pore structure as measured with an X-ray computed tomography scanner, the structure satisfying the following ranges:Specific Surface Areas: (1A) Specific surface area of solid region: 6 to 22/mm; and (1B) Specific surface area of void: 3 to 8/mm."

The patent was filed on May 30, 2022, under Application ...