US Patent Issued to PureCircle USA, KeyGene, The Coca-Cola on May 12 for "High rebaudioside M stevia plant cultivars and methods of producing the same" (American, Armenian, Chinese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,375, issued on May 12, was assigned to PureCircle USA Inc. (Westchester, Ill.), KeyGene N.V. (Wageningen, Netherlands) and The Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta).

"High rebaudioside M stevia plant cultivars and methods of producing the same" was invented by Avetik Markosyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Seong Siang Ong (Bandar Enstek, Malaysia), Runchun Jing (Ganzhou City, China), Tengfang Huang (Cary, N.C.), Fayaz Khazi (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Stephen Ezra Schauer (Rockville, Md.), Indra Prakash (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Alec Hayes (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stevia varieties with a high content of RebM, are disclosed Further provided are meth...