US Patent Issued to Living Ink Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Biologically-derived carbon black alternative and method of making the same" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,397, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Living Ink Technologies LLC (Berthoud, Colo.).

"Biologically-derived carbon black alternative and method of making the same" was invented by Aparna Nagarajan (Thornton, Colo.), Fiona Davies (Lakewood, Colo.), Scott Fulbright (Denver), Stevan Albers (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Kangmin Kim (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for producing a carbon black pigment from a microbial biomass. In certain aspects, the method involves providing a microbial biomass solution with a plurality microbial cells in an aqueous solvent; nucleating the plurality of microbial cel...