US Patent Issued to Yeda Research and Development on June 17 for "Continuous monitoring of algae crops using minimum optical information" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,278, issued on June 17, was assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Continuous monitoring of algae crops using minimum optical information" was invented by Ilan Koren (Rehovot, Israel), Assaf Vardi (Rehovot, Israel), Yinon Rudich (Rehovot, Israel), Adi Volpert (Rehovot, Israel) and Joseph Bolless (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring species of algae for stress comprises growing a test set of algae of a given species, applying a stress of a predetermined kind to some of the algae, and irradiating the algae at a predetermined first set of wavelengths. The algae are then ...