ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,719, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUNBAU GMBH (Erkrath, Germany).

"CO2 gas supply by means of an aquarium pressurized gas vessel with a nutrient substrate" was invented by Horst Ksienzyk (Solingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an aquarium pressurized gas vessel for supplying an aquarium (12) with CO2 gas generated in the aquarium pressurized gas vessel (10), the aquarium pressurized gas vessel (10) having a receiving vessel (14) for receiving a nutrient substrate and a reactant interacting with the nutrient substrate such that the nutrient substrate and the reactant react with each other...