ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,189, issued on March 3, was assigned to OPTICEPT TECHNOLOGIES AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method for treating cut flowers" was invented by Katarzyna Maria Dymek-Krakowiak (Lund, Sweden) and Stephen Kwao (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a method for treating one or more cut flowers each including a stem, possibly leaves and a flower bud, said method comprising-arranging one or more cut flowers in an impregnation solution so that at least a portion of the stem of said one or more cut flowers are immersed in the impregnation solution, but where the flower bud is free from impregnation solution; and-ap...