US Patent Issued on Sept. 2 for "Process for controlling organic acid ratios in a carbon dioxide bioconversion process" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,529, issued on Sept. 2.

"Process for controlling organic acid ratios in a carbon dioxide bioconversion process" was invented by Ryan Senaratne (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Brandon Beard (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes providing a gaseous substrate comprising CO2 to a bioreactor; providing acetogenic bacteria and medium to the bioreactor to provide a fermentation broth; providing sodium ions to the bioreactor through one or more sodium ion sources; fermenting the gaseous substrate with the acetogenic bacteria in the fermentation broth to produce one or more organic acids; and controlling a butyric aci...