ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,705, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA LA MANCHA (Albacete, Spain).

"Process for producing wine, method for modulating green character of wine, wine obtained or obtainable by such process or method, and use of a vine-shoot material as winemaking additive" was invented by Maria Rosario Salinas Fernandez (Albacete, Spain), Cristina Cebrian Tarancon (Albacete, Spain), Amaya Zalacain Aramburu (Albacete, Spain), Gonzalo Luis Alonso Diaz-Marta (Albacete, Spain) and Francisco De Asis Fernandez Roldan (Villarrobledo, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modulating green character of wine, as well as wine...