US Patent Issued to Synergia Biotech on Feb. 17 for "Alkaliphilic consortium shifting for production of phycocyanins and biochemicals" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,842, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Synergia Biotech Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Alkaliphilic consortium shifting for production of phycocyanins and biochemicals" was invented by Agasteswar Vadlamani (Calgary, Canada), Cigdem Demirkaya (Calgary, Canada), Jacqueline Zorz (Calgary, Canada), Hector De La Hoz Siegler (Calgary, Canada) and Marc Strous (Alberta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes are disclosed for photosynthetic cyanobacterial production of selected proteins and biochemicals within an evolving alkaliphilic microbial consortium."

The patent was filed on Nov. 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/778,978.

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