C12C 12/04
Beer with low alcohol content
Official title: Beer with low alcohol content (methods for reducing the alcohol content after fermentation C12H3/00)
C12C12/04 (Beer with low alcohol content) appears on 50 US grants and 123 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12C- Granted patents
- 50
- Published applications
- 123
- Assignees
- 51
- Inventors
- 216
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2 | 7 |
| 2022 | 3 | 12 |
| 2023 | 3 | 21 |
| 2024 | 4 | 21 |
| 2025 | 11 | 15 |
| 2026 | 7 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Beer-flavored low-alcohol beverage8 Sep 2026US 12,729,353 B2Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.
- Functional beverage containing 1,3 butanediol11 Aug 2026US 12,703,842 B2KetoneAid Inc.
- Hop extract4 Aug 2026US 12,698,460 B2Heineken Supply Chain B. V.
- Method for creating a craft beer with low alcohol content4 Aug 2026US 12,698,461 B2
- Low alcohol beer comprising a gluconate component14 Jul 2026US 12,680,059 B2Heineken Supply Chain B. V.
- Low-alcohol beer-like beverage and method for producing low-alcohol beer-like beverage1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297478 A1Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
- Fermented beverage and method for producing same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275254 A1Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
- Method for producing malt-fermented liquid17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275255 A1Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.
- Low Diacetyl Yeast Progeny Strains20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242720 A1Carlsberg A/S
- Non-alcoholic beer-taste beverage having suppressed soy sauce-like aroma30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218096 A1Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Membrane process for making enhanced flavor fluids26US 6,419,829 B2Spectrum Laboratories, Inc. · 2002
- Preparation of wort extracts16US 4,622,224 A1986
- Continous process of producing beer16US 5,762,991 AMetalgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft · 1998
- Membrane process for making enhanced flavor fluids13US 6,162,360 AMonsanto Company · 2000
- Low alcohol beer prepared with hydrogenated starch hydrolyzate11US 4,680,180 ARoquette Freres · 1987