US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Sept. 9 for "Living marine resource production method and living marine resource production device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,635, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Living marine resource production method and living marine resource production device" was invented by Hirofumi Nakanishi (Tokyo), Satoshi Yoshitake (Tokyo), Hiroshi Ikeda (Yokohama, Japan) and Hisashi Koaizawa (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep water drawing step of drawing deep water that exists in a deep region of the sea to a surface region of the sea with an upwelling pipe (1); and a phytoplankton culturing step of culturing the phytoplankton in the upwelling pipe (1) are included to produce, as a basic producer of a food chain, a livi...