US Patent Issued to PureCircle Sdn. Bhd. on July 14 for "High-purity steviol glycosides" (French, American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,849, issued on July 14, was assigned to PureCircle Sdn. Bhd. (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia).

"High-purity steviol glycosides" was invented by Avetik Markosyan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Indra Prakash (Alpharetta, Ga.), Cyrille Jarrin (Muret, France), Aurelien Badie (Labege, France), Robert Ter Halle (Baziege, France), Cynthia Curran (Atlanta) and Daniel Auriol (Roques, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing highly purified steviol glycosides, particularly rebaudiosides A, D and M are described. The methods include utilizing recombinant microorganisms for converting various staring compositions to target steviol glycos...