ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,923, issued on April 21, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Composition for aerozol food product, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, and method of producing hydroxypropyl methylcellulose" was invented by Takane Sudo (Joetsu, Japan), Mitsuo Narita (Joetsu, Japan) and Atsushi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the present invention is to provide a composition for aerosol food product that, even when the composition is foamed by using an espuma, can achieve a favorable state of the resulting foam, thereby rendering the obtained aerosol food product desirably palatable. The objective is...