US Patent Issued to PureCircle USA on April 29 for "Stevia cultivar '320032' with super high rebaudioside a content" (Chinese, Malaysian, Armenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,959, issued on April 29, was assigned to PureCircle USA Inc. (Chicago).

"Stevia cultivar '320032' with super high rebaudioside a content" was invented by Avetik Markosyan (Yervan, Armenia), Runchun Jing (Ganzhou, China), Seong Siang Ong (Selangor, Malaysia), Chunhui Wang (Ganzhou, China), Yucheng Bu (Shanghai), Jianning Chen (Ganzhou, China) and Yeen Yee Wong (Bandar Enstek, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stevia cultivar with super high Rebaudioside A content, designated '320032', is disclosed. Another embodiment relates to the plant parts of stevia cultivar '320032', to the plants of stevia '320032' and to methods for prod...