US Patent Issued to University of Delaware on June 24 for "Syntrophic co-cultures and uses thereof" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,431, issued on June 24, was assigned to University of Delaware (Newark, Del.).

"Syntrophic co-cultures and uses thereof" was invented by Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis (Newark, Del.), Kamil Charubin (Newark, Del.) and Alexander A. Mitkas (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Syntrophic co-cultures containing at least two microorganisms, wherein (a) at least one of the microorganisms is a solventogen able to metabolize biomass to produce metabolic byproduct(s) therefrom, (b) at least one of the microorganisms is a microorganism different from the solventogen, wherein the microorganism different from the primary solventogen depends ...