ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,880, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MICROPROPAGATION SERVICES (E.M.) Ltd. (Loughborough, Great Britain).
"Methods of in vitro culturing sphagnum" was invented by Neal Wright (Loughborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for in vitro culturing Sphagnum is provided. The method comprises providing a vegetative fragment of Sphagnum and surface cleaning the fragment with alcohol. The method further comprises dissecting the fragment to provide a piece (106) of Sphagnum. The method further comprises initiating the piece (106) of Sphagnum in a culture medium (104)."
The patent was filed on Nov. 24, 2021, under Appli...