US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on Sept. 22 for "Tea-based beverage" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,576, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Tea-based beverage" was invented by Shao Quan Liu (Singapore), Rui Wang (Singapore) and Mingzhan Toh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a tea-based beverage comprising probiotics, wherein the probiotics has a live probiotic cell count of less than=6.0 log CFU/ml. The invention further relates to a method of preparing the tea-based beverage having a live probiotic cell count of less than=6.0 log CFU/ml comprising the steps of: mixing tea infusion with sugar to form a mixture, inoculating probiotics to the mixture to...