US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Dec. 2 for "Anaerobic digestion process monitoring system and anaerobic digestion process monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,484, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Anaerobic digestion process monitoring system and anaerobic digestion process monitoring method" was invented by Kyohei Aketagawa (Tokyo) and Noriaki Katsumata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an anaerobic digestion process monitoring system for predicting a biogas production amount with high accuracy even when the activity of anaerobic microorganisms in a digestion tank changes. The anaerobic digestion process monitoring system includes: a first sensor which measures a feeding amount of organic waste into a digestion tank and outputs a measure...