US Patent Issued to POET Research on Sept. 22 for "Methods and systems for propagating microorganisms on stillage compositions" (South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,185, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to POET Research Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Methods and systems for propagating microorganisms on stillage compositions" was invented by Cory J. Sarks (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Rodney Duane Pierson (Wentworth, S.D.) and Malgorzata M. Slupska (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and systems of propagating a microorganism on a stillage composition. The methods involve growing microorganisms in a propagation medium formed from a polysaccharide-containing stillage composition with the majority of the of the polysaccharides in the propagation medium coming from the stilla...