US Patent Issued to The Coca-Cola, PureCircle Sdn. Bhd. on Nov. 25 for "Methods for purifying steviol glycosides and uses of the same" (American, Armenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,877, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta) and PureCircle Sdn. Bhd. (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia).

"Methods for purifying steviol glycosides and uses of the same" was invented by Indra Prakash (Alpharetta, Ga.), Avetik Markosyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula (Alpharetta, Ga.), Mary Campbell (Acworth, Ga.), Rafael San Miguel (Atlanta), Siddhartha Purkayastha (Chicago) and Marquita Johnson (Oak Lawn, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for purifying Rebaudioside X using a plurality of adsorbent columns packed with an adsorbent resin, passing a solution containing Rebau...