ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,758, issued on June 9, was assigned to Chenguang Biotech Group Co. Ltd. (Hebei, China).

"Industrial method for simultaneously preparing Stevia rebaudiana chlorogenic acid and stevioside" was invented by Yunhe Lian (Hebei, China), Meili Xu (Hebei, China), Wei Gao (Hebei, China), Zhiping Niu (Hebei, China) and Yanfang Wang (Hebei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an industrial method for simultaneously preparing Stevia rebaudiana chlorogenic acid and stevioside. The industrial method includes carrying out alcohol extraction on Stevia rebaudiana which is used as a raw material, and then adjusting the feed liquid state to...