US Patent Issued to NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for producing instant fried noodles" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,943, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for producing instant fried noodles" was invented by Sho Kitano (Osaka, Japan), Maiko Tanahashi (Osaka, Japan), Takaaki Hibi (Osaka, Japan), Yasuhiro Higashida (Osaka, Japan), Koji Hayakawa (Osaka, Japan), Taisuke Shingai (Osaka, Japan), Hideki Takizawa (Osaka, Japan) and Mitsuru Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Frying is performed in two stages so as to dip a retainer in frying oil at a prescribed dipping ratio and then to dip the whole of the retainer in the frying oil, and in addition, flow rates of the f...