US Patent Issued to SQUARE SON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY on April 7 for "Reduced calorie beverage or food product and process and apparatus for making same" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,856, issued on April 7, was assigned to SQUARE SON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LP (De Pere, Wis.).

"Reduced calorie beverage or food product and process and apparatus for making same" was invented by Luc Hobson (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for preparing a reduced calorie beverage or food product employing fermentation of a plant-derived juice or liquid and removing the ethanol therefrom. This invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the process for preparing a reduced calorie beverage or food product and to the reduced calorie juices and juice products creat...