ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,590, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PURECIRCLE USA INC. (Westchester, Ill.).

"High-purity steviol glycosides" was invented by Avetik Markosyan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Siew Yin Chow (Selangor, Malaysia), Khairul Nizam Bin Nawi (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia), Kristina Chkhan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Mohamad Afzaal Bin Hasim (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and Saravanan A/L Ramandach (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing highly purified steviol glycosides. The methods include utilizing enzyme preparations and recombinant microorganisms for converting various starting compositions to target steviol gly...