US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on July 14 for "Photoisomerized compositions of anthocyanins and methods of making and use thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,861, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Photoisomerized compositions of anthocyanins and methods of making and use thereof" was invented by M. Monica Giusti (Columbus, Ohio) and Yucheng Zhou (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are photoisomerized compositions comprising anthocyanins and methods of making an use thereof. For example, disclosed herein are methods of photoisomerizing a composition, the methods comprising: irradiating a composition comprising an anthocyanin dissolved in a solvent solution with UV light; wherein at least a portion of the antho...