US Patent Issued to Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Umweltforschung GmbH-UFZ on April 15 for "Composition of photoautotrophic microorganisms and chemoheterotrophic microorganisms in a biofilm" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,933, issued on April 15, was assigned to Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Umweltforschung GmbH-UFZ (Leipzig, Germany).

"Composition of photoautotrophic microorganisms and chemoheterotrophic microorganisms in a biofilm" was invented by Rohan Karande (Leipzig, Germany), Ingeborg Heuschkel (Leipzig, Germany), Katja Buhler (Leipzig, Germany), Anna Hoschek (Leipzig, Germany) and Andreas Schmid (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition of microorganisms, comprising photoautotrophic microorganisms (16) which produce oxygen by photosynthetic water oxidation chemoheterotrophic microorganisms (17) which respire oxygen, wherein the pho...