ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,102, issued on March 4, was assigned to Masashi Mori (Ishikawa, Japan).
"Method for synthesizing betalain pigment" was invented by Masashi Mori (Ishikawa, Japan), Tomohiro Imamura (Ishikawa, Japan), Yasuki Higashimura (Ishikawa, Japan) and Hiroharu Mizukoshi (Ishikawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object to provide a method of synthesizing amaranthin or gomphrenin-I-glucuronide. Genes each having an amaranthin or gomphrenin-I-glucuronide synthesis ability have been isolated from quinoa and the like, and the isolated genes have been used to verify the amaranthin or gomphrenin-I-glucuronide synthesis ability in non-bet...