US Patent Issued to WATANABE OYSTER LABORATORY on April 22 for "Method for producing 3,5-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzyl alcohol from plankton" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,345, issued on April 22, was assigned to WATANABE OYSTER LABORATORY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing 3,5-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzyl alcohol from plankton" was invented by Mitsugu Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for collecting seawater that contains plankton and producing DHMBA, which is an antioxidant, from the plankton contained in the seawater.[Solution] The method of the present invention includes: filtering collected seawater containing the plankton using a filter; taking out a cell content from the plankton remaining on the filter; subsequ...