US Patent Issued to Australis Holdings on March 24 for "Bioreactor and method for culturing seaweed" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,059, issued on March 24, was assigned to Australis Holdings Inc. (Greenfield, Mass.).

"Bioreactor and method for culturing seaweed" was invented by Joshua N. Goldman (Montague, Mass.) and Leonardo Mata (Povoa de Varzim, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioreactor includes a first compartment designed to retain seaweed sporophytes, a second compartment in fluid communication with the first compartment that includes one or more settlement surfaces, and a first porous barrier between the first and second compartments that allows the seaweed spores to pass from the first compartment to the second compartment, and systems compri...