ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,568, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NICHIREI FOODS INC. (Tokyo-to, Japan).

"Method for producing frozen processed cooked rice food" was invented by Jiro Kitamura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Akiko Sawada (Tokyo-to, Japan), Masao Sawada (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Masaru Sekiguchi (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a frozen processed cooked rice food is disclosed. This method includes: (A) a step of obtaining processed cooked rice food, wherein the step includes seasoning and/or processing before or after cooking raw material rice; (B) a step of cooling the surface of the processed cooked rice food obtained in ...