{"id":21180,"date":"2014-07-02T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2014\/06\/25\/proterro-gets-patent-for-proprietary-photobioreactor\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:41:49","slug":"proterro-gets-patent-proprietary-photobioreactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/proterro-gets-patent-proprietary-photobioreactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Proterro gets patent for proprietary photobioreactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EWING, N.J., June 25, 2014 \u2013 The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Patent No. 8,728,783 to Proterro, Inc., protecting the company\u2019s proprietary photobioreactor, a novel element in Proterro\u2019s patented sugar-making process (U.S. Patent No. 8,597,914).<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>Proterro\u2019s unique photobioreactor is robust, modular and made from off-the-shelf materials. It integrates systems for optimizing light, water supply and sugar collection, providing for the cultivation of Proterro\u2019s patent-protected, sugar-producing cyanobacteria and the harvest of a fermentation-ready sucrose stream.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this latest patent from the USPTO, Proterro has received its first international patent; Mexico Patent No. 310854, which mirrors the U.S. patent issued to Proterro that protects Proterro\u2019s sucrose-producing cyanobacteria (U.S. Patent No. 8,367,379).<\/p>\n<p>Four photobioreactors, which are being developed with ILC Dover, the NASA spacesuit maker that special- izes in advanced fabrics and engineered inflatables, are currently deployed at the company\u2019s pilot plant in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<h3>About Proterro<\/h3>\n<p>Proterro is the only biofeedstock company that makes sucrose instead of extracting it from crops or deconstructing cellulosic materials. Proterro has developed a patented sugar-making process using CO<sub>2<\/sub>, sunlight and water, and integrating patented transgenic sugar-producing cyanobacteria with a patented photobioreactor for cultivating those microorganisms. The process yields a fermentation-ready sucrose stream, removing the price volatility that comes with crop-based feedstock and eliminating the complex and costly steps required to produce cellulosic sugars derived from biomass. Proterro is leveraging its core intellectual property to create a 70+ patent portfolio. Biofuels Digest named Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin among the top 100 people in the bioeconomy for 2013-14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New Jersey, The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Patent No. 8,728,783&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[6918,3827,4281,3026],"class_list":["post-21180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ilc-dover","supplier-nasa","supplier-proterro-inc","supplier-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21180"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=21180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}