ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,163, issued on May 20, was assigned to INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED (Mumbai, India).

"Microbial consortium for enhancing the methane production from feedstock" was invented by Manoj Kumar (Faridabad, India), Mahendra Pratap Singh (Faridabad, India), Mohana Rao Damacherla (Faridabad, India), Umish Srivastva (Faridabad, India), Dheer Singh (Faridabad, India) and Biswapriya Das (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inoculum of microbial consortium containing live microorganisms is described. More particularly, the enviro-tolerant methane-producing microbial consortium and a method for the production of biogas having high...