ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,487, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing organic substance and apparatus for producing organic substance" was invented by Kokoro Hamachi (Tokyo) and Satoshi Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for producing an organic substance and an apparatus for producing an organic substance that are capable of efficiently cooling a synthesis gas and converting the synthesis gas to an organic substance at a high conversion efficiency using a microbial catalyst. A method for producing an organic substance includes a step of passing a synthesis gas G1 disch...