US Patent Issued to Hansford Biotech on April 14 for "Methods for increasing chromium in white kidney beans" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,071, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hansford Biotech Co. Ltd. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Methods for increasing chromium in white kidney beans" was invented by Wei Ting Hsieh (Taichung City, Taiwan), Kang-Ting Liao (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Ting-Yu Huang (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses methods for increasing chromium in white kidney bean. The method comprises preparing field, performing a first treatment to the seeds of the white kidney bean, performing a second treatment during the seeding period, performing a third treatment during the flowering period, performing a fourth tr...