ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,246, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (Munich).

"Method for determining and optimizing the content of at least one plant substance of at least one part of a plant" was invented by Volkmar Keuter (Essen, Germany), Dennis Schlehuber (Oberhausen, Germany), Annette Somborn (Recklinghausen, Germany), Holger Wack (Dortmund, Germany), Stephan Deckert (Dinslaken, Germany), Victor Takazi Katayama (Duisburg, Germany) and Felix Thoma (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described and represented is a method for determining the content of at least one plant sub...