US Patent Issued to Midwest Yogurt on Feb. 10 for "Cultured dairy products and method of preparation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,753, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Midwest Yogurt Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Cultured dairy products and method of preparation" was invented by James D Fischer (Maplewood, Minn.), Lynne H Nathan (Minneapolis) and Shannyn Stuart (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a cultured dairy product comprising: blending water, ultra-filtered milk and other ingredients to establish a dairy base, fermenting the dairy base to establish an intermediate yogurt product, adding a fat into the intermediate yogurt product, and blending the fat and intermediate yogurt product to produce a high fat and low carb...