MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517048744 A) filed by Neste Oyj, Espoo, Finland, on May 20, for 'processes and systems for culturing algae.'
Inventor(s) include Kanel, Jeffrey; Bryant, David; and Churn III, Cecil.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Processes are disclosed for culturing algae by maintaining aerobic conditions and controlling algal age in an algal growth system. The processes can include exposing an aquaculture medium including microorganisms capable of phototaxis to one or more light sources in an illumination zone of at least one algal aquaculture zone; allowing the microorganisms capable of phototaxis in the aquaculture medium to move toward the one or more light sources, thereby forming an upper layer containing the microorganisms capable of phototaxis and a lower layer in the illumination zone; separating at least part of the upper layer from at least the lower layer in a separation zone; and transferring at least part of the microorganisms capable of phototaxis of the upper layer from the separation zone to a harvesting zone. Systems for performing the processes described herein are also disclosed."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/FI2023/050733.
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