US Patent Issued to AD ASTRA EHF on May 20 for "Method of culturing Haematococcus species for manufacturing of astaxanthin" (German, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,161, issued on May 20, was assigned to AD ASTRA EHF (Kopavogur, Iceland).

"Method of culturing Haematococcus species for manufacturing of astaxanthin" was invented by Bjorn Podola (Cologne, Germany), Michael Melkonian (Lohmar, Germany), Alice Costa Kiperstok (Cologne, Germany) and Petra Sebestyen (Nagykoros, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of culturing Haematococcus species for manufacturing of astaxanthin comprising the steps of: providing a substrate, arranging the Haematococcus species on the surface of the substrate, exposing the Haematococcus species arranged on the substrate to high light intensities from the be...