US Patent Issued to LETAVIS on Sept. 2 for "Method for increasing longevity and/or bud opening of cut flowers" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,621, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LETAVIS AB (Alta, Sweden).

"Method for increasing longevity and/or bud opening of cut flowers" was invented by Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg (Djursholm, Sweden) and Bengt Lundegardh (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for increasing the bud opening and/or longevity of cut flowers by exposing the cut flowers to an oxytocin solution and/or a variant and/or derivative thereof."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/776,740.

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