US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Method for mass-producing sweetener having taste quality similar to that of sugar and having d-allulose functionality" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,583, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY (Takamatsu, Japan).

"Method for mass-producing sweetener having taste quality similar to that of sugar and having d-allulose functionality" was invented by Kazuya Akimitsu (Takamatsu, Japan), Ken Izumori (Takamatsu, Japan), Akihide Yoshihara (Takamatsu, Japan), Seizo Takaoka (Takamatsu, Japan), Shiro Kato (Takamatsu, Japan) and Susumu Mochizuki (Takamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object is to mass-produce a sweetener containing D-allulose and having a sweetness degree and taste quality very close to those of sugar at a world scale a...