ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,478, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing organic substance" was invented by Kokoro Hamachi (Tsukuba, Japan) and Satoshi Shimizu (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method which allows, for example, suppression of foaming in the purification step such as distillation and continuous operation, as well as direct treatment of a waste liquid (can liquid) without having to subject the same to an extra purification treatment by removing the microorganisms, nitrogen compounds, and phosphorous compounds at once from an organic substance-containing liquid o...