ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,768, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PureCircle USA Inc. (Westchester, Ill.).
"High-purity steviol glycosides" was invented by Avetik Markosyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Siddhartha Purkayastha (Chicago), Christopher Bayer (Munich), Andreas Vogel (Leipzig, Germany), Sabrina Kopke (Leipzig, Germany), Sebastian Bartsch (Leipzig, Germany), Birgit Brucher (Leipzig, Germany), Claudia Feller (Leipzig, Germany), Stefan Schonert (Leipzig, Germany), Mathias Salomo (Leipzig, Germany) and Thomas Schultchen (Leipzig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing highly purified steviol glycosides, particularly rebaudiosides M, D, E and...