US Patent Issued to Kuehnle AgroSystems on Sept. 29 for "Heterotrophic production methods for microbial biomass and bioproducts" (Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,444, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Kuehnle AgroSystems Inc. (Honolulu).

"Heterotrophic production methods for microbial biomass and bioproducts" was invented by Robert J. Schurr (Honolulu) and Adelheid R. Kuehnle (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to a method for synthesizing a product of interest by culturing a microalgal cell producing the product of interest in the dark in a culture medium comprising an organic acid as a fixed carbon source, wherein the microalgal cell is a facultative heterotroph. The product of interest can be a microalgal biomass, a pigment, terpene, recombinant molecule, bio...