ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,633, issued on April 22, was assigned to Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Steviol glycoside composition" was invented by Yui Utsumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Takayanagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoyuki Nishibori (Kanagawa, Japan), Soichiro Urai (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryoki Mitsui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Yokoo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steviol glycoside composition having a total content of specific nine types of steviol glycosides is equal to or more than 60% by weight and less than 95% by weight and the total content of other steviol glycosides and Stevia-derived components is 5 to 40% by weight each rela...