US Patent Issued to NAGASE VIITA on June 2 for "Sugar composition containing cyclic tetrasaccharide, use thereof, and production method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,142, issued on June 2, was assigned to NAGASE VIITA Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Sugar composition containing cyclic tetrasaccharide, use thereof, and production method therefor" was invented by Akiko Yasuda (Okayama, Japan), Manabu Miyata (Okayama, Japan), Takuo Yamamoto (Okayama, Japan), Akiko Mizote (Okayama, Japan) and Hitoshi Mitsuzumi (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide a saccharide composition suitable for a cyclic-tetrasaccharide-containing starch syrup which has low viscosity, low water activity, low coloration property, and low calorie content, and which is unlikely to cause pr...