ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,171, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ACTIV'INSIDE (Beychac et Caillau, France).

"Plant extract highly concentrated in safranal, production method and uses thereof" was invented by David Gaudout (Carignan de Bordeaux, France), Stephane Rey (Montelimar, France), Benoit Lemaire (Libourne, France), Benjamin Moras (Montelimar, France) and Marion Dumoulin (Bordeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a plant extract obtained from saffron, with a safranal concentration, measured using the HPLC method, of a minimum of 0.2% in weight relative to the total dry matter weight. The invention also concerns a procedure ...