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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2003
Applicants:

Chiaki Saitoh, Ami-machi, JP;

Atsushi Yashiro, Ami-machi, JP;

Chikara Tokunaga, Ami-machi, JP;

Kyoko Ozawa, Miho-mura, JP;

Atsuko Yokoi, Tsukuba, JP;

Nobuo Ogata, Tsuchiura, JP;

Hiroshi Katahira, Akeno-machi, JP;

Keiko Ochiai, Ebina, JP;

Katsuhiko Ando, Machida, JP;

Inventors:

Chiaki Saitoh, Ami-machi, JP;

Atsushi Yashiro, Ami-machi, JP;

Chikara Tokunaga, Ami-machi, JP;

Kyoko Ozawa, Miho-mura, JP;

Atsuko Yokoi, Tsukuba, JP;

Nobuo Ogata, Tsuchiura, JP;

Hiroshi Katahira, Akeno-machi, JP;

Keiko Ochiai, Ebina, JP;

Katsuhiko Ando, Machida, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to a novel flavoring solution for making pickles having a flavor of foods pickled in rice bran paste (hereinafter referred to as a bran pickles flavoring solution), a clear bran pickles flavoring solution, processes for producing said solutions, a novel microorganism belonging to the genusused for the production of said flavoring solutions, and a process for producing a solution containing a lactone wherein the lactone is selectively extracted from a culture of a lactone-producing microorganism. The present invention also relates to a novel bacterium of the genuswhich has the ability to produce γ-dodecalactone and/or γ-dodecelactone and is useful for the production of said bran pickles flavoring solutions.


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