ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,983, issued on July 15, was assigned to ENHOLD B.V. (Naarden, Netherlands).
"Gelled hydration medium" was invented by Geraldine Paola Hernandez Vasquez (Naarden, Netherlands), Bart Arnoldus Wilhelmus Dings (Naarden, Netherlands) and Wilhelmus Johannes Leonardus Arts (Naarden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a flower shipment kit comprising: a container holding an aqueous flower gel; and one or more cut flowers whose stems are immersed in the aqueous flower gel; wherein the aqueous flower gel comprises (i) 1-4 wt. % of disc-shaped smectite clay nanoparticles having two opposing flat surfaces that are ...