ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,278, issued on April 15, was assigned to Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).
"Anthocyanin-based colorant" was invented by Carine Mane (Montpellier, France), Celine Chanforan (Bouillargues, France), Patrick Lemmonier (Maugio, France) and Eric Jouenne (Teyran, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "1. A composition, which is an anthocyanin-based colorant composition comprising 50-90 mol-%, based on the total amount of anthocyanins, of pelargonidin-based anthocyanins, and wherein (i) less than70 mol-% of all anthocyanins are acylated with at least one phenolic acid; and (ii) less than20 mol-% of all anthocyanins are acyla...