ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,084, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tate & Lyle Technology Ltd. (London) and EPC Natural Products LTD. (Beijing).

"Compositions of steviol glycosides and/or multiglycosylated derivatives thereof" was invented by Hansheng Wang (Beijing), Xin Shi (Beijing), Jingang Shi (Beijing) and Mel Clinton Jackson (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides compositions comprising one or more glycosylated steviol glycosides (GSGs) and/or one or more steviol glycosides (SGs). In other aspects, the present application provides methods for (1) preparing SG/GSG compositions; (2) enhancing the sweetness of an orally co...