US Patent Issued to Suntory Holdings on Sept. 29 for "Transformed plant having blue flower color, and method for creating same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,447, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transformed plant having blue flower color, and method for creating same" was invented by Noriko Nakamura (Soraku-gun, Japan), Naoko Okitsu (Soraku-gun, Japan) and Yoshikazu Tanaka (Soraku-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a transformed plant having a blue-hued flower color or its inbred or outbred progenies, or their propagules, partial plant bodies, tissues or cells. Delphinidin type anthocyanin and flavone C-glycoside are made to be coexpressed in petals."

The patent was filed on Oct. 2, 2018, under Application No. 16/753,110.

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