US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH on April 22 for "System for delaying ripening of agricultural produce" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,625, issued on April 22, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH (New Delhi).

"System for delaying ripening of agricultural produce" was invented by Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present subject matter relates to a system (100, 200, 300) for delaying ripening process of agricultural produces (102, 202). The system (100, 200, 300) includes a first air-tight chamber (104, 204, 302) to hold a plant material (124, 228) in contact with a nitrite source (126, 230) and to receive a hypoxia-inducing source to create a hypoxic condition in first air-tight chamber (104, 204, 302) to en...