US Patent Issued to IBIDEN on March 18 for "Agent for increasing a plant functional component content and a method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,911, issued on March 18, was assigned to IBIDEN Co. Ltd. (Gifu, Japan).

"Agent for increasing a plant functional component content and a method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Katsuya Ohno (Gifu, Japan) and Tomohiro Nohara (Gifu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the invention is to provide an agent for increasing a plant functional component content, which is capable of increasing a content of the plant functional component by being adequately sprayed to the plant or injected into the soil without using stress cultivation conditions or plants with high content of functional component, and a method fo...