US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 12 for "Microbial respiration of chloroxyanions as a source of oxygen for bioprocessing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,360, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Microbial respiration of chloroxyanions as a source of oxygen for bioprocessing" was invented by John D. Coates (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aerobic microbial processes comprise culturing microbes comprising a (per)chlorate respiration pathway in a bioreactor in a bioprocess employing microbial respiration of chloroxyanions as a source of oxygen for the bioprocess, in the absence of external addition of molecular oxygen."

The patent was filed on May 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/313,367.

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