US Patent Issued to MIALGAE on March 24 for "Use of by-products from the alcoholic beverage manufacturing industry" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,084, issued on March 24, was assigned to MIALGAE LTD. (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

"Use of by-products from the alcoholic beverage manufacturing industry" was invented by Douglas Martin (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Shreekanth Ramananthan (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Julian Pietrzyk (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A by-product from an alcoholic beverage manufacturing process may be used to cultivate a thraustochytrid. The by-product may comprise a residue from a distillation step used in malt whisky manufacture, such as pot ale. The cultivation may be used to provide a product with enhanced amounts of lipids,...