US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 13 for "Culturing method and culturing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,796, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Culturing method and culturing device" was invented by Minoru Goto (Wako, Japan), Nozomi Shiobara (Wako, Japan), Shohei Kinoshita (Wako, Japan), Fumitomo Takano (Wako, Japan), Mizuho Doi (Wako, Japan), Satoshi Shiozaki (Wako, Japan) and Kenji Machida (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a culturing method, microalgae are cultured in a culturing solution while a gas containing carbon dioxide is supplied to the culturing solution. In an ion concentration acquisition step, an acquired value of a concentration of hydrogen carbonate ions in the culturing solu...