ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,885, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Culture device and culture method" was invented by Minoru Goto (Tochigi-ken, Japan), Nozomi Shiobara (Tochigi-ken, Japan), Shohei Kinoshita (Tochigi-ken, Japan), Mizuho Doi (Tochigi-ken, Japan) and Kenji Machida (Tochigi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A culture device by which microalgae can be satisfactorily cultured using a simple structure while suppressing an increase in energy consumption, and a culture method. A main body of this culture device comprises an accommodation part which accommodates contents and to which gas is supplied. The inner wall...