US Patent Issued to SMARTFLOW TECHNOLOGIES on June 30 for "Harvest and concentration process for microalgae species" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,771, issued on June 30, was assigned to SMARTFLOW TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Sanford, N.C.).

"Harvest and concentration process for microalgae species" was invented by Jason Bell (Sanford, N.C.), Todd Benson (Sanford, N.C.) and Marc Pugh (Sanford, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of separating microalgae from a liquid source material, wherein the apparatus and method permit the efficient achievement of a high concentration of microalgae in a final solid-containing fraction."

The patent was filed on Aug. 29, 2023, under Application No. 18/457,813.

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