US Patent Issued to Solar Foods on Sept. 22 for "Methods and systems for growing microbial mass" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,147, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Solar Foods Oyj (Vantaa, Finland).

"Methods and systems for growing microbial mass" was invented by Pasi Vainikka (Lappeenranta, Finland) and Juha-Pekka Pitkanen (Lappeenranta, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of growing a microbial mass includes collecting biowaste from an organism, the biowaste comprising a first amount of water and a first amount of solid-phase; receiving the collected biowaste in a first reactor; treating the collected biowaste in the first reactor using a first set of operating parameters for a first period of time to dissolve at least a part of solid-phas...