US Patent Issued to Suntory Holdings on Feb. 10 for "Non-alcoholic beer-flavored beverage, method for producing non-alcoholic beer-flavored beverage, and method for improving quality of bitterness of non-alcoholic beer-flavored beverage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,763, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-alcoholic beer-flavored beverage, method for producing non-alcoholic beer-flavored beverage, and method for improving quality of bitterness of non-alcoholic beer-flavored beverage" was invented by Takaaki Yoshii (Kyoto, Japan), Yohei Fujita (Kyoto, Japan), Hitoshi Matsubara (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuto Hata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide a non-alcoholic beer-taste beverage having an improved quality of bitterness. The present invention provides a non-alcoholic beer-taste beverage having an iso-Alpha-acid c...