US Patent Issued to Suntory Holdings on July 7 for "Food manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,665, issued on July 7, was assigned to Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka City, Japan).

"Food manufacturing method" was invented by Atsushi Mukai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to solve a conventional problem that it is difficult to reproduce a taste, a flavor, and the like of food, a food manufacturing support apparatus includes: an ingredient information storage unit in which two or more pieces of ingredient information are stored, the ingredient information each having one or more pieces of feature value specifying information for specifying an amount of each of one or more feature values contained in an ingredient of foo...