US Patent Issued to POET Research on July 14 for "Systems, compositions, and methods of fermentation with Z. mobilis" (South Dakota, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,116, issued on July 14, was assigned to POET Research Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Systems, compositions, and methods of fermentation with Z. mobilis" was invented by Stephen M. Lewis (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Benjamin P. Gacke (Baltic, S.D.), Jennifer Rebecca Headman (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Neelakantam V. Narendranath (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions, and systems for propagation and fermentation, particularly large scale operations for production of ethanol and dried distiller's grain are provided. Addition of Z. mobilis to propagation and/or fermentation decreases lactic acid bacterial contamination."...