US Patent Issued to PureCircle Sdn. Bhd. on Sept. 2 for "High-purity mogrosides and process for their purification" (Malaysian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,645, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to PureCircle Sdn. Bhd. (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia).

"High-purity mogrosides and process for their purification" was invented by Avetik Markosyan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process for preparation of highly purified mogrosides mixture from low purity mogrosides mixture. The process comprises providing a mixture of low purity mogrosides, dissolving the low purity mogrosides mixture in water or an aqueous alcohol solution to form an initial solution of mogrosides, passing the initial solution through a column system, wherein the column sys...