ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,882, issued on July 1.
"Automated bioconversion process for continuous and automatic control for co bioconversions" was invented by Michael Neubeck (Fayetteville, Ark.), Trevor Stilwell (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Nestor Camargo (Fayetteville, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control processes are provided for enhancing biological processes for converting gaseous substrates to useful end products such as ethanol. A process includes providing a gaseous substrate comprising one or more of CO and CO2 to a bioreactor at a substrate addition rate. Acetogenic bacteria provided to the bioreactor ferment the gaseous substrate in a fermentatio...