US Patent Issued to CAROTENOID-PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (CAROPROTECH) on Feb. 24 for "Aromatic glycoside and method for producing the glycoside" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,513, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CAROTENOID-PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (CAROPROTECH) (Ishikawa, Japan).

"Aromatic glycoside and method for producing the glycoside" was invented by Kazutoshi Shindo (Gunma, Japan) and Norihiko Misawa (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To extract, from plants such as freesia, a novel useful substance which is important in the food/pharmaceutical industry and which is expected to be useful for human health. The present inventors have found that an aromatic compound glycoside, which is a novel substance, is produced in a freesia cultivar having yellow petals such as "Ishikawa f2...