US Patent Issued to NTT on Aug. 18 for "Method of producing biological material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,731, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing biological material" was invented by Sosuke Imamura (Musashino, Japan) and Kazuhiro Takaya (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique capable of achieving production of a biological material using photosynthetic microorganisms at low cost is provided. A method of producing a biological material includes culturing photosynthetic microorganisms in a culture medium containing dimethyl 2-oxoglutarate while the photosynthetic microorganisms are irradiated with light to cause the photosynthetic microorganisms to proliferate, and then collecting...